On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 13:59:06 -0800 Peter C Norton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:14:52PM +0100, Brad Knowles wrote:
>> I don't believe that there are any databases in existence that >> "... can be made more suitable to the problem." > In theory you can add data types to postgresql. Not that I've done it > myself, but its been done. True, but that doesn't answer the question of whether an RDBMS is a good storage tool for messages. I spent a couple months of spare time last year building an archiving system I liked atop PostgresQL using fully decomposed SQL structures for all the message bits. It was not a pretty exercise, and the results were worse. Brad makes excellent points in his comments on poor BLOB support, the value if DBs for meta-data, and disaster recovery ease. -- J C Lawrence ---------(*) Satan, oscillate my metallic sonatas. [EMAIL PROTECTED] He lived as a devil, eh? http://www.kanga.nu/~claw/ Evil is a name of a foeman, as I live. _______________________________________________ Mailman-Developers mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-developers
