On Thursday 16 July 2015 00:19:59 Dmitry Smirnov wrote: > Hi David, > > On 15/07/15 23:34, David Goodenough wrote: > > My prefered DBM is Postgresql, but it has real problems when updating > > in that it does not automatically upgrade DBs on update, at least the way > > that Debian packages it. > > Interesting. Something tells me that it must be an upstream problem but > if this is a packaging issue then perhaps we can fix it -- we just need > more details. There is a script that can be run (pg_upgradecluster from memory) which does the upgrade, but the postinst for the debs does not use it. I guess there may be times when you do not want it, and originally it did not always work (I have been using pg for a long time), but I have never had a problem with it other than having to run in it manually. > > > Also sometimes, especially on sid you get an > > update where you can not even use the supplied upgrade scripts and you > > have to do it manually. Having that underlying my email system is not > > an acceptable risk. > > Indeed. > > > Personally I will not have MySql on my machine, I simply do not trust it. > > Bad experience or abstract theory? Just curious... Its rather like the difference between Access and MS-SQL, one is the full function, the other is a simplified version designed to make life quick and easy. Again this is my email system, I want something reliable and which follows all the SQL rules (MySql and its variants do not). > > Since 1.13.0-4 you should be able to use MariaDB or any other MySQL > flavour if they are any better... > > > Lots of other systems use Sqlite without problems, > > [...] > > I would also prefer SQLite if only akonadi could use it reliably... > > > All in all this is leading me to an inexorable conclusion, I have will > > have > > (after many many years) to give up on kmail and move to something else. > > My problem is what to move to. I really would like to remain within the > > KDE world as it will then be better integrated, and I need both IMAP and > > POP - there appears to be little option. > > I'm with you. I am addicted to KMail and many of its features. IMHO > there is no replacement to it... I wonder if upstream having plans to > decommission akonadi as it seems to be our only hope unless they manage > to magically fix it... There was talk of an Akonadi2, but I am not sure what happens to its DB usage. The other odd thing is that if I read its architecture page on kde.org correctly Baloo (the Nepomuk replacement) uses SqLite. I do not use Baloo consciously, but it lurks in the bowels of KDE and seems to work.
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