Re: sqlite3

[Yuri Khan]

On Mon, 6 Dec 2021 at 19:39, Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com> wrote:

> I also think that everyone is uses sqlite for persisting user settings because
> they don't have lisp and customize :).

I wanna add a thought here. There are multiple kinds of persistent
data, and they want different backup, versioning and replication
policies.

* Cache. Not backed up, not versioned, and not replicated.
* User configuration. Backed up, versioned, and replicated.
* Machine-specific variable data. Backed up, but probably not
versioned and not much point in replicating.
* User-specific variable data. Backed up, not versioned, replicated.

Emacs treats (mostly) everything as configuration. SQLite treats
everything as variable data. Neither way is a good thing.