Dirk Heinrichs wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 10:56 schrieb ext Dale: > >> Dirk Heinrichs wrote: >>> It does. And if you have such things like home on NFS you need to use a >>> real RDBMS anyway. Since you already have postgresql installed, just >>> use it. >> Thanks for the info. Just what, and how, does it use postgresql anyway? > > Amarok uses postgres (or better: a postgres managed database) to store meta > information of your music (like album data, track titles, when played > last, ...). > >> Keep in mind I'm not really sure what postgresql is. I know it is a >> database program of some kind but that's about it. The home page didn't >> shed much light either. :\ > > It is a full featured Relational DataBase Management System (RDBMS), similar > to Oracle. This means that it allows you to create databases to store any > kind of information and later query those databases to get these > informations back. > > HTH... > > Dirk
Why couldn't they put something like that on the home page? LOL That make a lot more sense. I have heard of Oracle, never seen it though. Thanks for the info. Learned a bit more today. Dale :-) :-) -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
