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Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers
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Pierre Neidhardt |
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Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers |
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Thu, 27 Aug 2020 13:15:39 +0200 |
Hi Simon!
zimoun <zimon.toutoune@gmail.com> writes:
> If you are going to an local SQL database, my two questions are:
>
> a)
> Which part would update it? “guix pull”? Other? Even using
> substitutes, the channels and co could lead to an extra cost and so what
> is acceptable and what is not?
I suggest fetching database updates when performing the filesearch, just
like `guix size` does.
The induced cost would be little in my opinion. A compressed database
for a whole generation is below 10 MiB. This operation would need to be
done only once per Guix generation. If we are a bit smart with timestamping
and only send a diff, it could even be much, much smaller.
> b)
> Could you also include other fields such that “synopsis” and
> “description”? Because it could speed up “guix search” without adding
> (or modifying) the current cache
> (~/config/guix/current/lib/package.cache); discussed at length in
> #39258 <http://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/39258>.
I think this is a bit beyond the scope of this patch set. I'd rather
focus on files exclusively for now and proceed one step at a time :)
Cheers!
--
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/
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- Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers, (continued)
- Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers, Arun Isaac, 2020/08/13
- Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers, Pierre Neidhardt, 2020/08/13
- Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers, Arun Isaac, 2020/08/13
- Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers, Pierre Neidhardt, 2020/08/13
- Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers, Pierre Neidhardt, 2020/08/13
- Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers, Arun Isaac, 2020/08/15
- Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers, Pierre Neidhardt, 2020/08/24
- Re: File search progress: database review and question on triggers, Pierre Neidhardt, 2020/08/24
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