Newsgroups: news.software.b
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Using a DBMS for administration
Message-ID: <1991Apr2.165043.15161@zoo.toronto.edu>
Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1991 16:50:43 GMT
References: <1991Apr2.063022.13017@ingres.Ingres.COM>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology

In article <1991Apr2.063022.13017@ingres.Ingres.COM> rog@Ingres.COM (Roger Taranto) writes:
>Out of curiosity, has anyone looked into using a DBMS as a
>replacement for the history and active files? ...

Well, they *are* a database of sorts, albeit a rather specialized one...

I don't know that anyone has seriously experimented with using a general-
purpose database system to store news.  Its characteristics are rather
different from the more stereotyped applications of such things.

>... Also, things like author,
>references, etc could be stored with each history entry.

The original B2.11 effort, stillborn long before the version now known
by that name came out, envisioned things along those lines.  Some of the
auxiliary databases used by readers like nn already do it.
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