Re: org-id-locations as a large-scale database store?

[Laurence von Bottorff <borgauf@gmail.com>]

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Any docs on what org-id-locations is about, who/what uses it?

On Tue, Mar 12, 2024 at 1:44 PM Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@posteo.net> wrote:

> yeti <yeti@tilde.institute> writes:
>
> >> Does org-brain have anything to do with org-id-locations?
> >
> > I think so...
> >
> > E.g. org-brain.el 788-794:
> >
> > -------------------------------8<---------------------------------------
> > (defun org-brain-entry-from-id (id)
> >   "Get entry from ID."
> >   (unless org-id-locations (org-id-locations-load))
> >   (when-let ((path (gethash id org-id-locations)))
> >     (list (org-brain-path-entry-name path)
> >           (org-brain-headline-at (org-id-find id t))
> >           id)))
>
> That's redundant. Calling `org-id-find' would suffice (org-id-find
> internally arranges org-id-locations to be updated).
>
> In any case, loading and searching id locations scales well for
> thousands of entries - I currently have 60+k entries there without
> issues.
>
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Lawrence Bottorff
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