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 Hello, Mel Pheasant, I'd like you to meet my friend, Harvey...
 MP> I'd presume the database message base packing operation would 
 MP> be faster than a *.msg base renum, due to fewer OS calls (ie. 
 MP> just have two or so files open the whole time). Then again, 
 MP> there may be more processing going on.
Sure, but it's RAM processing, not I/O-bound, far faster.
 MP> I'd still prefer *.msg.
As you said in a previous msg, I would consider database if someone could 
tell be they processed a full backbone feed for 6 months without losing a 
message base. I've heard too many horror stories. With *.msg, in 8 years, 
with the exception of msgs that -arrive- munged, I have never, ever lost a 
single msg. With database, it's the inbound mungelets that explode the 
database.
:-)
jB-)
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