On Monday, December 10, 2001, at 03:40 PM, Mark and Janice Juszczec wrote: > > The next question is, how am I going to store the data? I remember a > thread from earlier this year discussing the use of gpm (I think that's > the name). I'll dig that info up and give it a read. > > In the meantime, I was wondering how heavy duty of a database we need? > Since data compression is going to be more important that just about > anything else (gotta save space, gotta save space), I wonder if I'd be > able to get away with storing the data in a hash? Unique keys could be > generated from the date and time the entry was created thereby > preventing any collisions (hopefully). If I can't find/develop any > suitable text compression methods on my own, some of my co-workers > could probably give me a hand. We use some pretty heavy duty > compression algorithms for our products. > > What do y'all think?
I'm working on it. The XML storage in pgOrganizer is almost done, just a few more functions to add and it will be ready. I can also add compression to the XML files with libz or something similar. I've got finals this week, so I'll have plenty of time after Friday. > > Hope y'all get your Christmas shopping done. Wish me luck! > > Mark > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at > http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp > > > _______________________________________________ > Pgui-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel > _______________________________________________ Pgui-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/pgui-devel
