Re: [gentoo-dev] portage database management

[Ingo Krabbe <i.krabbe@dokom.net>]

On Sat, Feb 01, 2003 at 10:34:30AM -0500, Dylan Carlson wrote:
> I agree, there needs to be a way to speed up those operations eventually... 
> if only to index the tree so that seeks/searches are performed faster.
> 
> Problem with berkeleydb (sleepycat) is... things that get coded around 
> berkeleydb often stay married to berkeleydb forever, for better or for 
> worse. I had some issues with berkeleydb in the past year with versioning; 
> more than once it broke things on minor upgrades along the same branch.  
> YMMV.
> 
> I think it's perhaps better to make this modular.  Write db modules, one 
> for sleepycat, one for pgsql, one for mysql, et al.  Leave the indexing 
> data store up to the admin.   The data itself indexed in a B-tree.   
> 
> XML is a nice output format for interfacing with other applications, but 
> that doesn't mean you should store your data in it.
> 
> Cheers,
> Dylan Carlson [absinthe@pobox.com]
> 

Thanks, this is an answer I longed for.  I like berkeley DB for its easy
and small C API.  Of course there would be not much problem to use a
modular approach.  I may try a easy prototypish approach with C in the
evening or tomorrow.  Please inform me (mailto:<i.krabbe@dokom.net>) if
you want to have a look upon it.

BYE INGO

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