Re: [elephant-devel] Storing objects in the root when don't care about the key / add same key to root more than once

2007-05-27 Thread Joubert Nel
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 23:46, Robert L. Read wrote: > On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 16:23 -0400, Joubert Nel wrote: > > My question is: > > Currently I'm using the OID of the object as its key when I > > (add-to-root) because this is the only slot in my class that is > > guaranteed to be unique. (from a

Re: [elephant-devel] Storing objects in the root when don't care about the key

2007-05-27 Thread Robert L. Read
On Sun, 2007-05-27 at 16:23 -0400, Joubert Nel wrote: > Hi - > > I have a persistent class (i.e. :metaclass persistent-metaclass) defined > and am adding a whole bunch of objects that are instances of this class > to the root of my Elephant store. > > In order to retrieve a list of them I do: >

[elephant-devel] Storing objects in the root when don't care about the key

2007-05-27 Thread Joubert Nel
Hi - I have a persistent class (i.e. :metaclass persistent-metaclass) defined and am adding a whole bunch of objects that are instances of this class to the root of my Elephant store. In order to retrieve a list of them I do: (map-class fn 'my-class-name) My question is: Currently I'm us

Re: [elephant-devel] Understanding real-world use of Elephant

2007-05-27 Thread Ian Eslick
On May 27, 2007, at 6:08 AM, Henrik Hjelte wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 16:32 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think that SQL databases are a safer bet than Berkeley DB for having several processes on different machines talking to the same store, so I will have one instance of postgresql

Re: [elephant-devel] Understanding real-world use of Elephant

2007-05-27 Thread Henrik Hjelte
On Fri, 2007-05-25 at 16:32 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I think that SQL databases are a safer bet than Berkeley DB > > for having several processes on different machines talking to the same > > store, so I will have one instance of postgresql running on a server > > with scsi raid 10 an