my $.02 - ignore at will

Hi,

I just wanted to say that I like the idea of Current moving to what 
they call 'Plan F' - moving to a sql database backend.  I think this 
lends greatly to the future scalability of the project, and also 
makes development, testing, maintenance and extensibility much easier 
for those of us more comfortable with a sql interface than having to 
write/alter code just to see what's going on.  

I'm very interested in this aspect of the project (design thru 
implementation), but am at a bit of a loss right now as to where to 
start.  It's not quite as easy as throwing up a database and start 
writing sql.  In fact, I haven't developed in Python enough to even 
know if it has a database abstraction layer, or database dependent 
sql calls for each database supported.  I'll go read my books again 
tonight :)

If anyone who has been messing with this can give me s'more insight 
or understanding about how to get information about these Berkeley 
DB's (which I know very little about), I can probably at least come 
up with some sort of design spec to work from to try to seamlessly 
replace it with one of the many sql databases.  

As for Apache/mod_python/mod_ssl(?), someone more hardcore than me 
will have to tackle that.  I administer this stuff as part of my job, 
but I don't develop the stuff.  (most of my development, admittedly, 
is in PHP, with whatever database you want).

cheers.
brian
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Brian K. Jones
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Dept. of Computer Science, Princeton University
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