From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/1247 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Fredrik Staxeng Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: Is BBDB really that bad? Date: 01 Oct 2002 08:11:13 +0200 Message-ID: <1mn0pyk7su.fsf@Tempo.Update.UU.SE> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138668017 10382 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 00:40:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:40:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:28:51 2006 Original-Sender: fstx@Tempo.Update.UU.SE Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: news.update.uu.se Original-X-Trace: puffinus.its.uu.se 1033452035 news.update.uu.se (1 Oct 2002 08:00:35 +0100) Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!lackawana.kippona.com!news.teledanmark.no!news.telebyte.nl!news.nl.linux.org!humbolt.nl.linux.org!surfnet.nl!newsfeed.sunet.se!news01.sunet.se!puffinus.its.uu.se Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:1387 Original-Lines: 23 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 1387 Tue Jan 17 17:28:51 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:1247 Archived-At: Galen Boyer writes: > Yes, it would be a more complicated beast, but if Gnus were to adopt > an ability to break apart the messages and store them in a > "well-designed" database, lots of nifty searching and archival features > might be easier to implement (in the long run anyways) I don't think that using a relational database _ever_ buys you easier implementation. Sure, it gives you concurrent access at the record-level, and the indexing you need to handle searches in really large data volumes. I think it would help if you described some of the lots of nifty features instead of handwaving. I know 'select * ..' and grep well enough, and I most certainly prefer to do much searches with grep since it's matching is looser. A bit of extra junk is better than not finding what I am looking for. For example, this command serches for trace in all mails to Mikael: grep trace `grep -l 'To: Mikael' *` -- Fredrik Stax\"ang | rot13: sfgk@hcqngr.hh.fr