Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] node tree structure

[Colin Walters <walters debian org>]

[ No need to CC me, please; I'm on the list ]

On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 17:33, Jorn Baayen wrote:

> But you were talking about querying on rating ;)

Right, and with a real database, we could tell it to index on the rating
field; that would make queries like "Give me all songs with rating > 4"
faster; the database wouldn't have to search the whole song set.

> Yaeh, like anyone has that installed. Have you ever tried to install
> berkeleydb yourself? it's a pain. 

Well, first of all, we're talking about SQLite, not BerkeleyDB.  As for
installing either, I've never had a problem; my OS comes with packages
for both.

> And I keep repeating this, I see no
> reason to. Our performance is unlikely to improve much with it, since
> this is not where the problems are, it would only make installation a
> worse pain than ever before.

I think the code would be simpler and more flexible.  But, this is
something we can do in the future.