From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: storing messages in DBMSes (Was: Attaching notes to messages)
Date: 12 Oct 1999 10:18:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <whaeppxa8m.fsf_-_@viffer.oslo.metis.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Eric Marsden's message of "11 Oct 1999 12:58:14 +0200"
>>>>> Eric Marsden <emarsden@mail.dotcom.fr>:
> yes, using an nnpg backend which stores annotations and other metadata
> in a PostgreSQL database. Sure, Postgres is not as nice as PLOB! but
> it does have some OO features, it's free software, widely used,
> there's even a (&/%¤#) elisp interface to it :-)
> <URL:http://www.chez.com/emarsden/downloads/pg.el>
Ah! This is only the elisp interface to Postgres. Presumable the
nnpg backend doesn't exist yet.
But that makes me wonder: with the scaling problems all folders seem
to have, has anyone ever thought about using database systems to store
the messages themselves?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1999-10-12 8:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-10-10 14:58 Attaching notes to messages Hannu Koivisto
1999-10-09 16:36 ` François Pinard
[not found] ` <wtn1zb3rnq1.fsf@licia.dtek.chalmers.se>
1999-10-09 20:56 ` François Pinard
1999-10-11 10:58 ` Eric Marsden
1999-10-12 8:18 ` Steinar Bang [this message]
1999-10-12 11:16 ` storing messages in DBMSes (Was: Attaching notes to messages) Eric Marsden
1999-10-12 11:54 ` Fabrice POPINEAU
1999-10-10 20:38 ` Attaching notes to messages Kai Großjohann
1999-10-10 18:53 ` Harry Putnam
1999-10-10 23:29 ` Hannu Koivisto
1999-10-11 0:15 ` Harry Putnam
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