Re: [gentoo-dev] maybe it is time to put portage queries into a database.

[Brian Jackson <brian@mdrx.com>]

On Tuesday 24 June 2003 05:58 pm, Henti Smith wrote:
> On 24 Jun 2003 16:04:58 -0700
>
> jesse <yoda@f00bar.com> wrote:
> > > isn't db a system lib .. and installed on every machine ?
> > >
> > > can't you just use that ?
> >
> > My proposition was to use some connector lib that is compatable with all
> > those db formats. so you don't have to re-write a bunch of backend
> > drivers or DB specific queries. Im not a python programmer C/Perl are my
> > main forte, and you can use DBI to interface with many many db's as long
> > as you keep your queries db agnostic, and use the dbi methods. At least
> > with postgresql, mysql, and oracle to (some extent) this is the case.
>
> but since the db system is already part of the default system, why not just
> use that. It's really a system function .. and I knwo th "selectable"
> databse of choice is a nice to have but do we (gentoo) really want people
> to run different DB's for portage backend stuff .. and handle the bug
> tracking hell that will result because of it ?

I don't think that would scale well(sure a couple of boxes, but I'm probably 
going to have over ten by the end of the year, and if it scales well enough, 
that would be a boon for cluster environments where there can be thousands of 
nodes). I like the idea of having many backends available. That way, people 
could use whatever suited their environment. Aside from that the libs you are 
talking about are c libs. If this project aims to be included as part of 
portage at some point, it needs to be written in portage's native language. I 
think python has some basic db lib interface built in, I don't know about 
mysql/postgres/etc.

--Brian Jackson

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