Lee Elliott wrote: > ODBC would be better than making it DB specific. Msql has it's pros & > cons.
Not to be too much of a curmudgeon*, but let me point out that full double precision positions and orientations for every aircraft in the air at one time** over the planet earth would fit easily in RAM on the Macintosh IIcx*** that my roommate bought in college. :) Are you guys sure a SQL database isn't overkill? Similar arguments were made by David a while back regarding the use of metakit for the navaid database. These days, a dataset needs to be truly gargantuan to justify putting it in a fancy persistent store. Most of the time the trivial "load it all up at startup and use it until shutdown" metaphor is simpler and faster. Andy * Well, OK, being a huge curmudgeon. ** Maybe a hundred thousand, based on a vague memory that there were 20k aircraft in the air over North America that had to land at once on the morning of 9/11. *** He splurged and bought an 8MB machine. My PC had only two, sigh. _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
