On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 9:45 PM, rusi <rustompm...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to understand your points Chris. On the one hand you say: > > On Apr 14, 6:22 pm, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >> No, no, a thousand times no! If I am doing financial transactions, >> even if I'm alone on my machine, I will demand full ACID compliance. > > On the other you describe a bookmark storage scheme (which it seems > you are recommending); to wit > ... > So are you saying that if one switches from the non-ACID compliant > sqlite to your simple-text data-format, the new 'database' (note the > quote marks) will now become ACID compliant?
Unlikely. It theoretically could be made ACID compliant (all it needs is an OS-guaranteed atomic move/rename operation), but my point is that some things don't _need_ full-on databases. Financial work *does* (if I'm accepting money from people, I'd better make pretty sure I know who's paid me and how much); bookmarks usually don't. Also, bookmarks are the exclusive property of the person who creates them, so it's helpful to store them in a way that can be edited; with money movements, you often want some kind of indelibility guarantee, too (you can't go back and edit a previous transaction, you have to put in a correcting transaction). Different tasks demand different storage schemes. ChrisA -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
