Re: [Bug-gnupedia] Architecture Questions

[Imran Ghory]

On 21 Jan 2001, at 0:19, Mike Warren wrote:

> Tom Chance <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > We just know its advantages and general workings, not its minutae
> > setup and code, as yet lol.  So if anyone here knows sufficient
> > Perl, DBI and CGI stuff...
> 
> What exactly are the advantages of using a MySQL database? I'm not
> extremely familiar with it, but I don't see why human readable files
> (in XML or SGML or whatever) aren't a Good Thing.

So we don't have to re-invent the wheel. Usenet has tradionally 
gone down the direction of storing files in human readable form and 
it has had in the past problems with the OS not being able to cope 
with xxxx thousand articles in a directory. Also searching and 
querying are integeral to a database and are far easier and faster to 
use then trying to grep a massive directory.

Imran