Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL as a filesystem

2005-04-19 Thread Christopher Nelson
> On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > > "Christopher Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I'm developing a hobby OS and I'm looking into file systems. I've > > > thought about writing my own, and that appeals, but I'm also very > > > interested in the database-as-a-filesystem

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL as a filesystem

2005-04-19 Thread Marco Colombo
On Mon, 2005-04-18 at 17:18 -0400, Tom Lane wrote: > "Christopher Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm developing a hobby OS and I'm looking into file systems. I've > > thought about writing my own, and that appeals, but I'm also very > > interested in the database-as-a-filesystem paradigm

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL as a filesystem

2005-04-18 Thread Aaron Glenn
On 4/18/05, Christopher Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This isn't a high-priority question. > and if I can latch on to this non-priority question with another in a similar vain: what sort of RDBMS do huge transactional systems like Tandy's use? I've read that everything is a database, s

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL as a filesystem

2005-04-18 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Monday 18 April 2005 01:42 pm, Christopher Nelson wrote: > This isn't a high-priority question. > > > > I'm developing a hobby OS and I'm looking into file systems. I've > thought about writing my own, and that appeals, but I'm also very > interested in the database-as-a-filesystem paradigm. I

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL as a filesystem

2005-04-18 Thread Joshua D. Drake
"Christopher Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I'm developing a hobby OS and I'm looking into file systems. I've thought about writing my own, and that appeals, but I'm also very interested in the database-as-a-filesystem paradigm. It would be You may want to take a look at SQLLite. It would pr

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL as a filesystem

2005-04-18 Thread Christopher Nelson
Sorry for the misnomer. :-D Thanks for answering my question so quickly! > "Christopher Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm developing a hobby OS and I'm looking into file systems. I've > > thought about writing my own, and that appeals, but I'm also very > > interested in the database-

Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL as a filesystem

2005-04-18 Thread Tom Lane
"Christopher Nelson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm developing a hobby OS and I'm looking into file systems. I've > thought about writing my own, and that appeals, but I'm also very > interested in the database-as-a-filesystem paradigm. It would be nice > to not have to write all of the stuff