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Messages Limits

Posted: Mon May 25 2020 2:27pm
by planteria
any way i can have the limit on my messages increased please? :think:

Re: Messages Limits

Posted: Mon May 25 2020 4:36pm
by BeautifulSunshine
planteria wrote:
Mon May 25 2020 2:27pm
any way i can have the limit on my messages increased please? :think:
It's a global setting, the same for everyone. Unless Richard increases everyone's limit.

Re: Messages Limits

Posted: Tue May 26 2020 8:19am
by richard@imutual
Do you mean private messages? Or posts?

Re: Messages Limits

Posted: Tue May 26 2020 8:26am
by planteria
private messages.

Re: Messages Limits

Posted: Tue May 26 2020 9:59am
by richard@imutual
You need to delete old ones. There is a limit per member in order to keep the database from getting too large and slowing the forum

Re: Messages Limits

Posted: Tue May 26 2020 12:07pm
by planteria
thank you, i'd thought of that.

Re: Messages Limits

Posted: Tue May 26 2020 12:44pm
by MP3746
richard@imutual wrote:
Tue May 26 2020 9:59am
You need to delete old ones. There is a limit per member in order to keep the database from getting too large and slowing the forum
I can assure you that the amount of messages will not impact on performance, otherwise Facebook with its 2 billion+ users would have ground to a halt by now. The database tables need to be indexed and a primary key to be set to the member id while data is fetched by pagination is the way to keep performance at a high level.

Re: Messages Limits

Posted: Tue May 26 2020 2:09pm
by macliam
MP3746 wrote:
Tue May 26 2020 12:44pm
richard@imutual wrote:
Tue May 26 2020 9:59am
You need to delete old ones. There is a limit per member in order to keep the database from getting too large and slowing the forum
I can assure you that the amount of messages will not impact on performance, otherwise Facebook with its 2 billion+ users would have ground to a halt by now. The database tables need to be indexed and a primary key to be set to the member id while data is fetched by pagination is the way to keep performance at a high level.
Horses for courses, user data is Facebook's raison d'etre, whereas imutual is a cashback system. How do you think a database normally works, if not by use of indexed tables?

Re: Messages Limits

Posted: Tue May 26 2020 2:22pm
by MP3746
macliam wrote:
Tue May 26 2020 2:09pm
MP3746 wrote:
Tue May 26 2020 12:44pm
richard@imutual wrote:
Tue May 26 2020 9:59am
You need to delete old ones. There is a limit per member in order to keep the database from getting too large and slowing the forum
I can assure you that the amount of messages will not impact on performance, otherwise Facebook with its 2 billion+ users would have ground to a halt by now. The database tables need to be indexed and a primary key to be set to the member id while data is fetched by pagination is the way to keep performance at a high level.
Horses for courses, user data is Facebook's raison d'etre, whereas imutual is a cashback system. How do you think a database normally works, if not by use of indexed tables?

It doesn't matter what the usage is and not all tables are indexed - they usually have to be specified by primary keys. How do you think tables are intially created - indexed or non-indexed? If the database is accessed correctly, there is no need to limit messages (subject to storage requirements) and will satisfy iMutual members who require a higher limit of messages.

Going back to my original comment rather than answering misinformed replies, the amount of messages in a database table does not impact performance if pagination is used on indexed tables. Facebook does it, Yahoo does it, Tesco does it, Topcashback does it, I do it. Did I mention Topcashback? That is a cashback system, isn't it? No ifs, buts, how, whats - access to data is quick when the correct technique is applied. You can have the final say, if you're still on that high horse of yours.

Re: Messages Limits

Posted: Tue May 26 2020 2:48pm
by macliam
Sorry for daring to contradict your vast knowledge, Dr. Codd, - but it is you who presumed that user messaging is not indexed, so climbed on a very high horse. I suspect the reason for limitation is not speed but cost. Placing a limit on the iterances of keyed data is not unusual, if database size is to be restricted - unlimited data= unlimited server space=growing costs..... and in this case the cost of a secondary benefit. Would you care to point me to the user forum on Topcat?