I would really like to see expire gone

[Russ Allbery]

bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:

>   Has someone looked into this, and if so are there any notes on why it
> isn't (shouldn't be) done with a database allowing nice gradual
> deletions as the articles vanish, and no changes in service centered on
> one part of the day?

Figure out how to do it with acceptable performance, and I think it's a
great idea.  We have a history API that should allow experiments with new
history formats without breaking the world.

I've not managed to figure out how to do it with acceptable performance.
My intuition says that using something like BerkeleyDB will be *far* too
slow.  But the BerkeleyDB folks didn't really agree with me, so I could
well be wrong.  Someone may have to run an experiment to see.

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