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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Proposal: KSharedFile
From:       Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-12-11 17:02:24
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On Tuesday 11 December 2001 09:14, Nick Papadonis wrote:
> Nick Papadonis <npapadon@yahoo.com> writes:
> > On Friday 07 December 2001 19:52, Ingo Assenmacher wrote:
> > > But why do not use a database with transactions and
> > > multiuser-evironment to solve concurrency issues here. Instead of
> > > KsharedFile make something like KFileProxy and connect to a
> > > database. Concurrent access to data including integrity issues
> > > have been solved for many years now by database systems. So why
> > > keep up with fragile file-based manipulations and lock-files?
>
> Another value add:
>         (accsess time large db) < (access time large multiple flat
> files)

We are talking about accessing one small file. I don't think that 
access time is a problem.

-- 
Cornelius Schumacher <schumacher@kde.org>

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