[KDE-pim] New Install: AKONADI wit PostgreSQL

[Martin Steigerwald]

Erik Quaeghebeur - 01.01.21, 16:43:01 CET:
> On donderdag 31 december 2020 12:39:51 CET, Martin Steigerwald wrote:
> > I think it is too much to ask from the user of a PIM suite to deal
> > with database administration tasks of any kind. […]
> 
> I agree. That is why I switched to the SQLite backend (it, also, is an
> improvement over the default MySQL). There are all kinds of warnings
> strewn around the internet that it isn't up to the task for Akonadi,
> but any issues I have are never reducible to SQLite. It's (failed)
> syncing to and from the remote that typically causes problems for me,
> because Akonadi doesn't seem capable of recovering. (It seems to use
> some out-of-database files thrown into the configuration directory
> for the backlog of unsynced local stuff…)

Interesting view point. Thanks for this.

> A PIM suite needs some database backend for searching and filtering.
> But something like SQLite should be up to the task in the
> single-user-at-a-time case. (‘Ad’ from sqlite.org: “For device-local
> storage with low writer concurrency and less than a terabyte of
> content, SQLite is almost always a better solution. SQLite is fast
> and reliable and it requires no configuration or maintenance. It
> keeps things simple. SQLite "just works".”) It is used in many
> applications that put quite some load on it. It includes many
> features that could be leveraged (views, triggers, full text search,
> json fields).

Yeah, I see Firefox uses it all over the place for example. Never had 
issues with it. But then Firefox databases are usually way smaller.

But I use Quassel IRC Core with SQLite on my server and this is 800 MiB 
database meanwhile.

-- 
Martin