From owner-freebsd-current Tue May 5 08:17:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01321 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 08:17:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01314 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 08:17:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw@whistle.com) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.7.5/8.6.12) id IAA22478 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 08:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pau-amma.whistle.com(207.76.205.64) by whistle.com via smap (V1.3) id sma022474; Tue May 5 08:17:15 1998 Received: (from dhw@localhost) by pau-amma.whistle.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA11466 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 5 May 1998 08:17:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dhw) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 08:17:15 -0700 (PDT) From: David Wolfskill Message-Id: <199805051517.IAA11466@pau-amma.whistle.com> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Development Projects Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 15:05:59 +0200 >From: Wolfram Schneider >I know 3 kinds of databases >1) My brain. Works for less than 5 entries Capacity for these units seems to vary from model to model... and be somewhat load-sensitive, at least in my case.... :-) >2) Text-based databases which can be parsed with awk/perl/tcl. > Works fine for less than 50,000 entries. For an example of this that (in my experience) works well, take a look at RDB, by Walt Hobbs, at ftp.rand.org:/pub/RDB-hobbs. I've used this as a basis for several things (some of were more useful than others). And if there's a perception that something "broke", you can always use the tried-and-true UNIX text-based tools.... >3) Database management systems. Did not work ;-) As a sysadmin, I tend to be mistrustful of such things.... :-} david -- David Wolfskill dhw@whistle.com (650) 577-7158 pager: (650) 371-4621 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message