[ET Trac] [Einstein Toolkit] #871: Use SQLite as Formaline back-end

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#871: Use SQLite as Formaline back-end
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  Reporter:  eschnett               |       Owner:     
      Type:  enhancement            |      Status:  new
  Priority:  major                  |   Milestone:     
 Component:  EinsteinToolkit thorn  |     Version:     
Resolution:                         |    Keywords:     
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Comment (by rhaas):

 I am not doing anything with the Formaline output other than looking at
 it. I am speaking out of my experience when Firefox switched from storing
 cookies in a plain text file to storing them in an sqlite database (and I
 wanted to transfer cookies from firefox to wget). Yes the tools are in
 principle available but they are still harder to learn than an editor or a
 set of perl/awk/python regular expressions to extract a single item. Doing
 large amounts of data manipulation might be quite different. Jus speaking
 for myself: I have no experience at all using sqlite (either its command
 line tools or SQL itself) but feel confident parsing even moderately
 complicated ascii files with tools I feel comfortable with. So my point
 was not so much as to what is technically better (a structured database
 clearly beats an unstructured ASCII file) but more of what I myself would
 expect user to be able to work with. I have no real strong preference
 since I can just continue to more or less ignore these file the way I do
 right now :-)

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