On Sun, Dec 21, 2014 at 11:28 PM, Simon Slavin <slav...@bigfraud.org> wrote:
> When you're wishing for the future, however, it's best to wish big, not > for a tiny step-wise improvement. Don't wish for a system with a better > journalling mode, wish for a system without 17 journalling different > modes. Don't wish for faster locking, wish for a system that doesn't use > locking. And hope most of all that Dr Hipp doesn't care what you want and > is channelling Henry Ford: > > “If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster > horses.” > > (Note: This quote is famous but was probably never spoken by Mr Ford.) > > If an Alfa Romeo owner demands that Alfa Romeo produce a 600HP hypercar, Alfa Romeo will kindly direct them to buy a Ferrari. The same way Dr Hipp will probably direct a person asking for lockless readers and row version concurrency to use PostgreSQL instead of SQLite by posting a link to whentouse.html. Asking for a MERGE statement, full ALTER TABLE support or better FK violation error reporting (my own wish list) is something that IMHO Dr Hipp cannot dismiss that easily. They are reasonable features to ask of an SQL database, no matter how "lite". It is like asking Alfa Romeo to improve their cars' gearboxes and fuel consumption, they cannot get away from that. --Constantine PS: Whenever I see an Alfa Romeo I tip my hat --Henry Ford. :) _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
