From owner-freebsd-database Sun Mar 29 20:55:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA06285 for freebsd-database-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 20:55:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fddi.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id UAA06269 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 20:55:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 21426 invoked from network); 29 Mar 1998 21:57:30 -0000 Received: from localhost.simon-shapiro.org (HELO sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) (@127.0.0.1) by localhost.simon-shapiro.org with SMTP; 29 Mar 1998 21:57:30 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-032398 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 13:57:30 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Wolfram Schneider Subject: Re: [PORTS] Pgaccess doesn't run on -current anymore, Update Cc: freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, andreas@klemm.gtn.com, scrappy@hub.org, (Satoshi Asami) , Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On 26-Mar-98 Wolfram Schneider wrote: .. > The FreeBSD mailing list search interface support threads. The > thread database will be updated hourly. Of course there are > many things to do to make the threads more user friendly. We have been playing with the idea of normalizing the archive into an RDBMS. Some of the benefits are: * no need to update the threads database. It will always be updated. * Users can create, easily, their own thread logic with no impact on system performance. * Searching on normalized fields are many times faster, and much less costly in system resources. What I am missing, is the definition of what functionality is neccesary/existing/desired. The only information I have is from observing the UI and guessing what common sense would dictate. ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message