Re: Maintaining NodeID sanity

On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:50:38PM -0500, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
>...
> > Oh... and why bother with base64? To keep the keys shorter in the DB? That
> > seems rather obscure. When debugging, I think it will be much nicer for the
> > humans to just use a plain old integer.
>
> Consistency with the representations and strings tables would be my
> reason. The revision keys are the only user-visible keys (node keys,
> rep keys, strings keys, and txn ids are not), so those can stay
> numeric. In fact, we could make the nodeIDs be base64 as well, now
> that I think about it.

Why? Why convert them to base64? Why not keep them *all* as integers? You're
working with integers, so keep them that way; otherwise, people will wonder
WTF those weird character sequence are, go to dig, and then go "oh. that's
it? just integers. damn them for wasting my time."

Cheers,
-g

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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