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

[Dale <dalek@exceedtech.net>]

Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> 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


Why couldn't they put something like that on the home page?  LOL  That
make a lot more sense.  I have heard of Oracle, never seen it though.

Thanks for the info.  Learned a bit more today.

Dale

:-)  :-)
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