Image as a database (was Re: UTF8 Squeak)

Philippe Marschall philippe.marschall at gmail.com
Mon Jun 11 06:06:54 UTC 2007


2007/6/11, Michael van der Gulik <mikevdg at gmail.com>:
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> On 6/10/07, Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek at eranova.si> wrote:
> > Hi Phillipe,
> >
> > Philippe Marschall wrote:
> > > 2007/6/9, Janko Mivšek <janko.mivsek at eranova.si>:
> > >> Philippe Marschall wrote:
> > >> All of us who use image as a database care about space efficiency but
> on
> > >> the other side we want all normal string operations to run on unicode
> > >> strings too.
> > >
> > > The image is not an efficient database. It stores all kind of "crap"
> > > like Morphs.
>
> The crap is going to be there anyway if you're running some sort of live
> image with a database attached. If you don't want the crap then you can
> remove it from the image or use a minimal image.
>
> > Now I'm thinking to do the same in Squeak. That is, to use squeak image
> > as a database, fast and reliable. Am I too naive?
> >
>
> You have to have plans for when an image becomes corrupted.
>
> I don't think it's too difficult to have the image automatically save itself
> - say for example once every 5 minutes, once an hour, once a day and once a
> week. That way if an image becomes corrupted, you can go back to the latest
> known working image.
>
> If data is very important to your application, you could write some code to
> log changes to a file (aka squeak.changes) and manually read them back in
> when disaster occurs.

AKA transaction log DIY.

Philippe

> Michael.
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