Re: PostgreSQL crashes with Qmail-SQL

On Fri, Jan 25, 2002 at 03:48:40AM +1100, Justin Clift wrote:
> Jan Wieck wrote:
> > 
> <snip>
> > 
> >     As said, "simple read-only" is not really something you  want
> >     a  full  featured  RDBMS for. Maybe you are better off with a
> >     simple and stupid system on the  feature  level  of  gdbm  or
> >     MySql.
> > 
> > Jan
> 
> I'd agree with this on the query-level functionality... but...
> 
> Michael, does Qmail-SQL *store* the email in the database?  (haven't
> checked)
No way ;) Only the user/authentication-management moved to the database.
> 
> If so, there's no way I'd want new customer inquiries or other
> *important* email stored in a system which didn't know how to fully
> recover if the server crashes.
Neither do i. But i know there exists a patch (qmail seems to consist merely
of patches) which stores the mail in a database. Maybe you can use this to
"save" helpdesk-calls ;)

Regards,
Michael.