From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/42479 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Russ Allbery Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: db-backed mail back end Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 16:51:17 -0800 Organization: The Eyrie Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <87g04x7w4q.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> <87n0z5685o.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035177713 11842 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 05:21:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 05:21:53 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 13916 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2002 00:53:59 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 24 Jan 2002 00:53:59 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16TY79-0006Nq-00; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:51:39 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:51:34 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id SAA11968 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:51:24 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 13874 invoked by alias); 24 Jan 2002 00:51:24 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 13869 invoked from network); 24 Jan 2002 00:51:23 -0000 Original-Received: from windlord.stanford.edu (171.64.13.23) by gnus.org with SMTP; 24 Jan 2002 00:51:23 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 20707 invoked by uid 50); 24 Jan 2002 00:51:17 -0000 Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <87n0z5685o.fsf@inanna.rimspace.net> (Daniel Pittman's message of "Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:46:59 +1100") Original-Lines: 11 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090005 (Oort Gnus v0.05) XEmacs/21.4 (Common Lisp, sparc-sun-solaris2.6) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42479 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:42479 Daniel Pittman writes: > Ahem. Anyway, adding a database is no assurance of better performance, > no. I suspect that you might gain more from using GDBM to hash some of > the overview and marks stuff than using SQL for data storage. Don't use GDBM where you could use Berkeley DB; the latter is much more robust, less buggy, and quirky. Version 1 is stable as a rock. -- Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)