On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 03:15:49PM -0400, Richard Welty wrote: > > Yes, that's exactly what I mean. I was more thinking about an option to
> > store the hints/callout db in sql instead of on the filesystem.
>
> ewwww.
> these are simple, single key lookups so far as i know. what possible
> advantage do you think you gain by incuring the overhead of an SQL or
> SQL-like database?
Being able to do multiple reads against the database without having to
wait for a filesystem lock on the database to be released?
