On Wed, 20 Feb 2002, Michel Clasquin wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 February 2002 16:35, you wrote:
>
> > I'm using Postgres now as the backend to my library (about 2,000 books,
> > 300 CDs).
>
> Wow, that's like swatting a mosquito with a cruise missile. If anyone
> needs only a simple flat-file database for personal use, try xmbase-grok:

The project was intended as more of a learning experience than for
practicality :).  Another reason was to be able to pull information
directly into the form from the Library of Congress, something that I
hadn't seen implented in other catalog software. At the least, it should
scale well over the next few years as I collect more books.

>
> http://www.bitrot.de/grok.html
>
> Simple to set up (rpms available at rpmfind.net), saves its data files as
> plain text, and it goes like hell!
>
>

Interesting program. How is its performance with large data files?


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