Re: SpreadFirefox - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: SpreadFirefox
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Msg-id 4175E2AB.1060001@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: SpreadFirefox  (Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
Responses Re: SpreadFirefox
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>If Firefox decided to drop the XML configuration storage approach in
>favor of using a (perhaps quasi-embedded, in the way it _could_ be
>done) PostgreSQL instance, that would be a good excuse.
>
>
IMHO that is a bad use for PostgreSQL and a better use for SQLite.
PostgreSQL is a farily
heavy process to be a book mark manager.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake


>And this would be a most interesting application of PostgreSQL; there
>are plenty of cases of data storage:
> - Configuration data
> - History
> - Cache
> - Bookmarks
> - Icons and such
>
>What would be equally or more interesting would be to build a "back
>end" for either the GNOME or KDE config schemes that would use
>PostgreSQL in lieu of the hordes of little XML files.
>
>But as you say, there's not really anything in common now...
>
>


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