Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 14:55:50 -0500,
> Jeff Flowers <duckfoo@fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
>>So my question is: how much data needs to be stored before PostgreSQL is
>>worth the effort? Also, do people even use PostgreSQL at home for
>>personal, non-weblog stuff?
>
>
> The amount of data isn't the main consideration. Postgres would be useful
> if you wanted to have queries about you comic books use an index or if
> there was some data about them that had rules you wanted enforced.
>
> I would think it would be overkill to use postgres if you are just
> occasionally adding the names to the list and will just want the whole
> list if there is an accident.
That kind of collection, I suspect it would be nice to sort by:
title,
date,
value,
So I would suspect putting them into a database would prove to be quite
useful.
I've cataloged my toothpick collection in this way.
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Until later, Geoffrey