Debian standard SQL server (was Re: Ideas from Usenix)

[Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com>]

Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> wrote:
>    > gimp already does this on startup.  You could use its code.

Raul Miller <rdm@test.legislate.com> writes:
>    I think fortune would be a more versitile implementation than what the
>    gimp uses.  Neither deal with frequence of use for commands, but fortune
>    deals with a much larger database of messages.

Ben Pfaff <pfaffben@pilot.msu.edu> wrote:
> I meant the front-end code.  You could make the backend a SQL server
> for all that.

Hm..  at first I was going to object to this, because of the overhead of
having an sql server in debian.  Then again, maybe it would be a good
idea to have an sql server in debian.

At the moment, I believe that there are two viable SQL servers which
we could put in main.  Postgres is one, Perl's DBD::CSV is another.

More generally, perl's database inteface (and networked database support)
is something I'd like to see put on our [non-]release goals.  With the
upcoming database shell, we'd also get a common user interface across
databases.

-- 
Raul


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