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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