Re: Database storage approach

[Preben Randhol <randhol pvv org>]

Alexander Peuchert <peuc@peuchert.de> writes:

| Hi Gnomers,
| 
| I have a short question including a proposal. Well, I posted it a week ago
| wrapped in some gnome-mailer comments, but I think it's worth remailing it
| and think about it ...
| 
| How about using a database for file storage instead the file system.
| 
| For example:
| 	show me all gnumeric documents.
| 	show me all documents, I edited last week.
| 	where are all the text files?
| 	I need the report like it was before I edited a second time.
| 	... and so on ...
| 
| 
| This thought comes every time I'm forced to use M$ software and every app
| uses its own default folder for saveing things. The next time I try to
| find something its vanished and can only be found using a search( if I can
| remeber the name ...)!

How would you handle these files with other apps ? What will you do if
the database gets corrupted?

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