Best modality for rather large stacks

[Alex Tweedly]

Kurt Kaufman wrote:

> I know there was a discussion on this topic about a year ago, when I  
> inquired about the necessity of using a formal database extension to  
> Rev vs. a text file vs. multiple substacks.  I ended up going with  
> the substacks as in doing so multiple users could concurrently access  
> different records, and the data of the individual records (in this  
> case) did not need to be combined in any way.  Would it have been  
> possible to allow multiuser access had I used a single text file  
> instead of multiple substacks?
>
Possible but difficult. Sufficiently difficult that I'd say it wouldn't 
be worth it.

If you have multiple simultaneous users including one (or some) doing 
updates, then use a database. (or multiple substacks, but personally I'd 
just go the whole hog and use a database).

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