Bug#513382: Filesystem backend

2009-08-09 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2009-08-09, LEDUQUE Mickaël wrote: > In fact, in my opinion, the point is to not have the data in ANY big, full > featured, and space hungry database software. > I don't understand why something as simple as an address can't just be > stored in whatever file format you could name. Even c

Bug#513382: Filesystem backend

2009-08-09 Thread LEDUQUE Mickaël
In fact, in my opinion, the point is to not have the data in ANY big, full featured, and space hungry database software. I don't understand why something as simple as an address can't just be stored in whatever file format you could name. Even csv would work! What does a relational database do bett

Bug#513382: Filesystem backend

2009-08-09 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Sunday, 2009-08-09, LEDUQUE Mickaël wrote: > So if I set ExternalPayload to true and SizeThreshold to zero, it won't > start the mysql server at all? No, it will store all cached item data (payload) in files. It will still keep all relational data, e.g. which folder contains which items, in th

Bug#513382: Filesystem backend

2009-08-09 Thread LEDUQUE Mickaël
So if I set ExternalPayload to true and SizeThreshold to zero, it won't start the mysql server at all? One valuable gain would be to get rid of the mysql dependency, but it won't because the dependency wasn't removed from the akonadi-server package

Re: Bug#513382: Filesystem backend

2009-08-09 Thread Kevin Krammer
On Saturday, 2009-08-08, LEDUQUE Mickaël wrote: > In the same page that was mentioned earlier > http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Akonadi_TODO , there is an > item "Scheduled for KDE 4.3 / Akonadi 1.2" that is titled "Filesystem > backend" and is described as "Store content data in files

Bug#513382: Filesystem backend

2009-08-08 Thread LEDUQUE Mickaël
In the same page that was mentioned earlier http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/PIM/Akonadi#Akonadi_TODO , there is an item "Scheduled for KDE 4.3 / Akonadi 1.2" that is titled "Filesystem backend" and is described as "Store content data in files instead of the database, transfer filehandles instead o