how does history file get too large?

[Russ Allbery]

bill davidsen <davidsen at tmr.com> writes:

> So if I send you a whole bunch of tools which depend on the format of
> that file and being able to seek to items in it and all such like you
> are going to rewite then in ten minutes and send them back?

That might take me a little bit longer.  *grin*.  But I am actually
interested in what tools people have had to invent to deal with history,
since I think many of them should probably come with INN instead, and if I
were going to change the default history format, adding such tools would
be part of that project.

Please note too that we have a pluggable history API.  If I add a new
format that writes binary files, and you don't like it, you won't have to
use it; you can keep using the history format that you're using now.

> As long as I can quickly extract all the records between two times, for
> posting, arrival, and if possible expiry (haven't used that in over a
> year but have used it), I can cope without reinventing every tool.

That should be pretty easy, and that's certainly something INN should
provide.

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