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From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: exported contacts problem
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2019 17:26:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <875znfaycd.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20190802213421.GZ17561@protected.rcdrun.com

Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:

> * Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> [2019-08-02 23:11]:
>> > Neither bbdb nor Org is suitable for any serious collection of
>> > contacts. I have 192,000+ contacts, and when they are in database and
>> > I am using PostgreSQL, it gives me most of benefits, I can sort people
>> > into lists, groups, I can contact them, count interactions, open up
>> > their files, emails with a fast command, edit their data, add notes,
>> > send them faxes and SMS, maintain relations.
>> 
>> That sounds pretty intense. Have you written a separate package for
>> interacting with the database?
>
> I wrote few generic functions and use it with helm, it works for
> me. It is not ready for public. Web interface works based on Gedafe[1]
> and then I wrote access to it through console Common Lisp and then
> also through Emacs Lisp.
>
> I am using Emacs module `emacs-libpq'[2] to interact with PostgreSQL.
>
> Let's say I am looking for somebody, Hyper-C asks me for query, I
> enter something, then I can choose to open Org file relating to the
> person. When dealing with various companies, things related to a
> company shall be in the directory related to company. Things related
> to person, for example assignments related to one person shall be in
> the file belonging to that person.
>
> That way full file can be sent to the person for review, it becomes
> clear what has been done, and what is yet to be done.
>
> Mixing assignments, TODO, agendas from all subjects, groups and
> persons into one file would give me terrible confusion.

Okay, thanks for that run-down, pretty interesting. I've written a
package called EBDB[1] that's meant to be sort of an update to BBDB, and
while I think someone's using it with tens of thousands of contacts,
192k records would probably exhaust it. It has pluggable data stores,
however, one of which will (eventually) be a proper external database,
so I'm always interested in how people are using this stuff.

Eric

[1] https://github.com/girzel/ebdb

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-03  0:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-02 15:47 exported contacts problem Jude DaShiell
2019-08-02 16:00 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-02 16:02 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-02 16:06   ` Jude DaShiell
2019-08-02 21:09   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-08-02 21:34     ` Jean Louis
2019-08-03  0:26       ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2019-08-03 10:33         ` Jean Louis
2019-08-03 15:38           ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-08-03 16:32             ` Jean Louis
2019-08-03 17:48               ` Neil Jerram
2019-08-03 18:25                 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-03 21:32                 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-08-03 22:12                   ` Jean Louis
2019-08-04  1:28                   ` Tim Cross
2019-08-13 22:24                   ` David Masterson
2019-08-14 20:38                     ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-08-16  0:07                       ` David Masterson
2019-08-03 10:48         ` Jean Louis
2019-08-02 22:19   ` John Kitchin
2019-08-02 20:33 ` Tim Cross
2019-08-02 20:57   ` Jude DaShiell
2019-08-02 21:25     ` Tim Cross
2019-08-02 21:39       ` Jean Louis
2019-08-02 22:07         ` Tim Cross
2019-08-03  8:25           ` Jean Louis
2019-08-02 21:00   ` Jean Louis

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