Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Amorok and getting started.

[Dirk Heinrichs <ext-dirk.heinrichs@nokia.com>]

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Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 10:56 schrieb ext Dale:

> Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> > It does. And if you have such things like home on NFS you need to use a
> > real RDBMS anyway. Since you already have postgresql installed, just
> > use it.
>
> Thanks for the info.  Just what, and how, does it use postgresql anyway?

Amarok uses postgres (or better: a postgres managed database) to store meta 
information of your music (like album data, track titles, when played 
last, ...).
 
>  Keep in mind I'm not really sure what postgresql  is.  I know it is a
> database program of some kind but that's about it.  The home page didn't
> shed much light either.  :\

It is a full featured Relational DataBase Management System (RDBMS), similar 
to Oracle. This means that it allows you to create databases to store any 
kind of information and later query those databases to get these 
informations back.

HTH...

	Dirk
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