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Re: [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database
From: |
James K. Lowden |
Subject: |
Re: [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database |
Date: |
Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:20:00 -0400 |
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 07:32:01 +1000, Zenaan Harkness <address@hidden>
wrote:
> > > And checking constraints? Or are constraints specified in some other
> > > manner (or a combination)?
> >
> > Yes.
>
> That'll teach me to ask three questions in one sentence; I take it you
> mean any combination.
Constraints can be specified in several ways, and constraints are checked
at insertion time.
> > Someone entering a single device would want a form, probably a web
> > form. I'd suggest our CGI script append the data to a file that we
> > subsequently apply to the database after vetting. You don't want
> > random people adding Bogon devices.
>
> Hmm, Bogon device. If it's got anything to do with Teleportation, I'm
> interested.
Obscure reference, sorry:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogon_filtering
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/B/bogon.html
> CVS is the archive tool on savannah AIUI. We'll think about it more
> later, but I suspect something more compact than the entire db (which
> will be mostly the same one night to the next) will be desirable.
>
> This format needs to be:
> - human readable (ie. text, not binary)
> - usable to recreate/ restore the database
I basically agree. Question: will we have any reason to restore the
database to its status as of any arbitrary point in time. Is it not
sufficient to be able to go back a week/month/year? As a technical
matter, if the database grows to a substantial size, CVS updates (and
storage) of database dumps will become nontrivial and perhaps infeasible.
Archival storage is not common practice among DBAs.
Regards,
--jkl
- [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database, (continued)
- [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database, Richard Stallman, 2004/07/22
- Re: [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/07/22
- Re: [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database, Richard Stallman, 2004/07/23
- Re: [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/07/24
- Re: [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database, James K. Lowden, 2004/07/25
- Re: [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/07/25
- Re: [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database, James K. Lowden, 2004/07/26
- Re: [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/07/26
- Re: [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database,
James K. Lowden <=
- Re: [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database, Zenaan Harkness, 2004/07/26
- Re: [hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database, James K. Lowden, 2004/07/27
[hfdb] Re: Grand Unified Hardware Database, Till Kamppeter, 2004/07/19