Re: postgresql vs sqlite for Cuirass (was Re: Hackathon: Mumi and Cuirass)

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Aljosha Papsch <address@hidden> writes:

> Am Freitag, den 17.05.2019, 10:26 +0200 schrieb Gábor Boskovits:
>> Any suggestions to overcome this would be appreciated.
>
> I would go with the client/server database. It helps scaling in the
> long term and Guix must take over the world, no? With SQLite you'll be
> stuck with the single file on a single server. You could implement your
> custom replication using rsync or whatever, but you'll have to ensure
> that the receivers do not write to the file (readonly "slaves"). In the
> end it will be a problem already solved by Postgres and other
> server/client databases.

Our current problem is not replication and we’re far from needing it at
this point.  I think there are better ways to improve Cuirass than to
switch to Postgres.

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Ricardo