Question: what's the benifit of compile in database support?

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an naoú lá déag de mí na Samhain, scríobh FKtPp: 

 > So, it is to say that VM package in XEmacs heavily used this kind of database backends? 

Not heavily, no, but it does use it. See
http://google.com/codesearch?q=file%3Avm.*%5C.el%24+open-database and the
first result. 

 > ----- Original Message ----
 > From: Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org>
 > To: FKtPp <m_pupil at yahoo.com.cn>
 > Cc: XEmacs Beta List <xemacs-beta at xemacs.org>
 > Sent: Sunday, November 18, 2007 2:58:21 PM
 > Subject: Question: what's the benifit of compile in database support?
 > 
 > 
 > FKtPp writes:
 >  > Dear developers,
 >  > 
 >  > As the subject said I have a stupid question, what is the advantages
 >  > of compile in a database support like:
 >  > 
 >  > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
 >  > Databases:
 >  >   Compiling in support for Berkeley database.
 >  > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
 >  > 
 >  > Can I use this in elisp scripts inside XEmacs, If so, how to use it?
 >  
 > 
 > Yes.  As far as elisp is concerned it's basically just an external
 > (ie, on-disk) hashtable.  Since you have access to the BDB/dbm
 > functionality, you can tune it for the mind of access that's most
 > common.
 > 
 > The PostgreSQL support is much more powerful.
 > 
 >  > Is there any documents/info pages describe this kind of usage?
 > 
 > Not really.  I believe that VM supports keeping information about the
 > summaries in a dbm or Berkeley db database.
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
 > 
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