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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?


  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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