Re: [Bug-gne]API

[Rob Scott]

the api:  yes i admit this is quite a crazy idea, but its something im just 
going to keep
playing around with until i find a use for it.
or dont, which is more likely.

IT DOES NOT / WOULD NOT AFFECT THE RECENT DEVELOPMENT WE'VE BEEN DOING ON GNE




At 06:25 28/06/2001 +0800, you wrote:
> Tom Chance wrote :
>
> > btw I subscribed w/this different address... POP3 not
> > crappy yahoo mail.
> >
> > anyways... the API, I've been drawing up a list of all
> > the standardised functions we'll need. This a list of the
> > client functions I can think of:
>
> [ lots of useful stuff clipped for brevity ]
>
> I've clearly not been keeping up here.  Are images going to be inside the
> database. If so why? Do you know the performance hit that this gives?  Large
> blocks of text are the same.  MySQL can handle both, but that doesn't mean
> that it *should*.
>
> Surely keep the database for simple stuff (author details, article titles,
> synopses, dates, versions etc) and the bulk data elsewhere.
>
> Like I said, if this has already been set in stone, sorry for not paying
> attention, and could someone post/point me at the argument please?
>
> The Hooker
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