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Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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> Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 10:56 schrieb ext Dale: |
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>> Dirk Heinrichs wrote: |
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>>> It does. And if you have such things like home on NFS you need to use a |
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>>> real RDBMS anyway. Since you already have postgresql installed, just |
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>>> use it. |
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>> Thanks for the info. Just what, and how, does it use postgresql anyway? |
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> Amarok uses postgres (or better: a postgres managed database) to store meta |
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> information of your music (like album data, track titles, when played |
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> last, ...). |
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>> Keep in mind I'm not really sure what postgresql is. I know it is a |
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>> database program of some kind but that's about it. The home page didn't |
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>> shed much light either. :\ |
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> It is a full featured Relational DataBase Management System (RDBMS), similar |
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> to Oracle. This means that it allows you to create databases to store any |
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> kind of information and later query those databases to get these |
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> informations back. |
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> HTH... |
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> Dirk |
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Why couldn't they put something like that on the home page? LOL That |
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make a lot more sense. I have heard of Oracle, never seen it though. |
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Thanks for the info. Learned a bit more today. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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