C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>kfogel@collab.net writes:
>
>
>
>>Is there a reason not to do non-uniqueness like this:
>>
>> (PROP-NAME PROP-VALUE) -> (REVNUM1, REVNUM2, REVNUM1 ...)
>>
>>
>
>A couple come to mind quickly:
>
> - It unnecessarily complexifies the value format, making it into a
> skel, which is a Berkeley-ism (something we would eventually like
> to get away from).
> - Because then each addition is now an edit (which for Berkeley DB
> means we write out more log data than necessary)
>
>
Yes, these are exactly the reasons I had. Also it would make the size of
the record unbounded, and doesn't map nicely to a SQL schema.
-- Brane
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Received on Tue Apr 20 00:31:44 2004