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Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Architecture Questions


From: Rob Scott
Subject: Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Architecture Questions
Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 14:03:47 +0000 (GMT)

thats exactly what ive been trying to say, thankyou
imran

--- Imran Ghory <address@hidden> wrote: > On 21
Jan 2001, at 0:19, Mike Warren wrote:
> 
> > Tom Chance <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > We just know its advantages and general
> workings, not its minutae
> > > setup and code, as yet lol.  So if anyone here
> knows sufficient
> > > Perl, DBI and CGI stuff...
> > 
> > What exactly are the advantages of using a MySQL
> database? I'm not
> > extremely familiar with it, but I don't see why
> human readable files
> > (in XML or SGML or whatever) aren't a Good Thing.
> 
> So we don't have to re-invent the wheel. Usenet has
> tradionally 
> gone down the direction of storing files in human
> readable form and 
> it has had in the past problems with the OS not
> being able to cope 
> with xxxx thousand articles in a directory. Also
> searching and 
> querying are integeral to a database and are far
> easier and faster to 
> use then trying to grep a massive directory.
> 
> Imran
> 
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