-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Agent M wrote: [snip] > > But the data from 35 years ago wasn't stored in Ingres and, if > it's important, it won't stay in Ingres. The data shifts from > format to format as technology progresses. Ingres has been around for longer than you think: about 20 years. So, the data has been converted one time in 35 years. Pretty damned stable if you ask me. Another example: the on-disk structure of RDB/VMS has remained stable ever v1.0 in 1984. That means that upgrading from major-version to major version (even when new datatypes and index structures have been added) is a quick, trivial process. Companies with lots of important data like that. > It seemed to me that the OP wanted some format that would be > readable in 20 years. No one can guarantee anything like that. ASCII will be here in 20 years. So will EBCDIC. As will UTF. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins are mud people. However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFErbXoS9HxQb37XmcRAk8OAJ0bUv1kk7T0Q273jGkFVwy5TnHG9wCdFDI8 9ebDZyxwiIGwfmISbJpGWBs= =DfBk -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
