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Via email, I asked PG about this 7 years ago. me: "I've read in your essays that you (and yahoo) chose to store all your information in files rather than a dat
by abtinf 15y ago
Via email, I asked PG about this 7 years ago.
me: "I've read in your essays that you (and yahoo) chose to store all your information in files rather than a database. I am curious if you would make the same decision now that excellent oss databases are available (mysql, postgresql, etc)."
PG: "I'd do the same thing. It was a huge win to use alists (a lisp construct) and just write them to files. Then if anything went wrong, or data formats changed, I could just munge the raw files. Nothing was wired in."
- unimpressive 15y agoThank you for answering. At the same time however, I'm not really sure what to think about that. On the one hand future proof is a massive win. On the other no rollbacks seems like a risky way to operate. I hope he keeps regular backups of the data files.