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Posted Feb 3, 2011 13:14 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
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Parent article: LCA: Lessons from 30 years of Sendmail

If you have to put things in a DB, at least make it sqlite. The sqlite command-line tool can be used to manipulate that in all sorts of ways if your tool is broken.


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Posted Feb 5, 2011 15:07 UTC (Sat) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501) [Link]

Though the sqlite command-line interface is no way close in friedlyness to that of pgsql (or even the mysql one).

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Posted Feb 7, 2011 16:49 UTC (Mon) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Yeah, agreed. I was assuming 'zero dependencies', i.e. the sort of thing which might reasonably break in a situation in which 'all you have is vi'.

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