Re: Proof of concept: standalone backend with full FE/BE protocol

A Dijous, 6 de setembre de 2012 00:30:53, Josh Berkus va escriure:
> > In general I think the selling point for such a feature would be "no
> > administrative hassles", and I believe that has to go not only for the
> > end-user experience but also for the application-developer experience.
> > If you have to manage checkpointing and vacuuming in the application,
> > you're probably soon going to look for another database.
>
> Well, don't discount the development/testing case. If you do agile or
> TDD (a lot of people do), you often have a workload which looks like:
>
> 1) Start framework
> 2) Start database
> 3) Load database with test data
> 4) Run tests
> 5) Print results
> 6) Shut down database
>
> In a case like that, you can live without checkpointing, even; the
> database is ephemeral.
>
> In other words, let's make this a feature and document it for use in
> testing, and that it's not really usable for production embedded apps yet.

+1.

Some projects such as tryton would benefit from this feature.

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