Re: sqlite3

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Qiantan Hong <qhong@mit.edu>
> CC: Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de>,
>         "larsi@gnus.org"
>       <larsi@gnus.org>,
>         "emacs-devel@gnu.org" <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
> Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 12:00:08 +0000
> 
> > A blanket opposition like that, which is not specific to a certain use
> > or a class of uses of the capability, makes no sense at all.  You are
> > in effect saying that there are no applications in the world that
> > should use a DB except those that browse DBs created by others.  IOW,
> > in an ideal world, you'd deny the very need for having persistent DBs
> > for _any_ application.  Please rethink such a general attitude.
> 
> Please read my original arguments. The scope is limited to Emacs.

It makes no sense to deny any possibility of using DB storage for
Emacs.

> > 5. Database is essential for manipulating trillions of records,
> > but that's not a typical use case of Emacs. It provides little
> > benefit if data fits into main memory.
> The only non typical use case of Emacs I can think of is as an
> database browser/editor.

Then we will have to disagree, and you will have to accept that the
Emacs maintainers think differently from you, and will use these
capabilities where that is deemed useful.