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I once tried out some RSS aggregator/reader that required me to install and set up postgres for no good reason other than it's what the developer was accustomed
by liability 7y ago
I once tried out some RSS aggregator/reader that required me to install and set up postgres for no good reason other than it's what the developer was accustomed to. Huge pain in the ass, particularly since simply using sqlite would have been perfectly adaquate (does a RSS reader really need concurrent writes? Really?)
For any software meant to be used on a non-technie's desktop, anything other than an embedded 'zero config' arrangement is a nonstarter.
- pedrocr 7y agoThis is exactly true, which is why embedding postgres would be great. It's very easy to hit the performance limitations of sqlite and then be stuck with the choice of either poor performance or forcing users to setup postgres like you experienced.
- aitchnyu 7y agoAmarok, the kitchen sink music player had an option of connecting to a Mysql server back in 2007. IIRC it used a slower embedded DB out of the box.