[Info-vax] C99 updates to CRTL

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2019-08-01 00:29:04 +0000, Simon Clubley said:

> How well do the current crop of NoSQL databases handle resizing fields 
> in a record and adding fields to a record without having to rebuild 
> programs or having to make source code changes to allow programs to 
> continue using the existing data ?

Donno about NoSQL off-hand, but SQLite and other SQL environments 
handle that with aplomb.  Which is one of the reasons I've been using 
SQLite as a data store.  That and JSON/YAML work pretty well here, too. 
 Depending on the app requirements.

> In that regard, RMS itself is strictly in the punched card era with its 
> fixed record layout without any native abstraction behind that fixed 
> record layout.

And off-line conversions, and off-line backups, etc.

The RMS limitations here are why the clustering configuration is such a 
mess, too.


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