Re: org-id-locations as a large-scale database store?

[Laurence von Bottorff]

Any docs on what org-id-locations is about, who/what uses it?

On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 1:44 PM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:

>> Does org-brain have anything to do with org-id-locations?
>
> I think so...
>
> E.g. org-brain.el 788-794:
>
> -------------------------------8<---------------------------------------
> (defun org-brain-entry-from-id (id)
>   "Get entry from ID."
>   (unless org-id-locations (org-id-locations-load))
>   (when-let ((path (gethash id org-id-locations)))
>     (list (org-brain-path-entry-name path)
>           (org-brain-headline-at (org-id-find id t))
>           id)))

That's redundant. Calling `org-id-find' would suffice (org-id-find
internally arranges org-id-locations to be updated).

In any case, loading and searching id locations scales well for
thousands of entries - I currently have 60+k entries there without
issues.

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