"Glenn A. Thompson" <gthompson@cdr.net> writes:
> Folks:
>
> Will whatever Node sanity you arrive at be three separate thingy's?
> Or all one blob sort of thing? I'm hoping for three separate
> thing-a-ma-bobs or (do-hickys:-). When you guys mention space
> conservation in your discussions, I get a little squeamish. SQL DBs
> piss disk away like beer at a football game. Am I going to get beat
> about the head and shoulder for their wastefulness? I was planing
> on keeping this ID as a number in the SQL Tables. But I don't want
> to argue about it. I will do strings if you guys want me to. One
> thing I do prefer is that I keep any (ID/or potentially indexed sort
> of thing) a fixed length if possible. Some DBs have the ability to
> widen a column on the fly if needed or you can always export then
> import to the wider columns.
Regardless of what is chosen, we will not allow a schema in which the
keys can grow without bound (heh...though in this case, we sure wish
we could easily let them grow forever :-). If we choose a 64-bit
integer, you can simply make sure to set your table width to however
many characters needed to hold the largest collection of those things.
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Received on Sun May 12 09:18:25 2002