I'd be fine with doing retroactive table creation. Though I'd sort of like to see us move towards a cleaner database architecture -- the whole system of having template tables, and then a whole series of tables for time partitions always struck me as sort of awkward.
But I'm not really a database guy, so I don't know what the Right Thing is. :( On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Jiaqi Tan<[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been trying to use the MDL to retroactively load data that was > generated at an earlier time (somewhat like backfilling, but not, > because I'm loading my own state-machine data), but when I create new > tables and fire up dbAdmin.sh in the present time, it only creates > tables into the future. Is there any way to create tables for time > periods that have passed? > > Also, taking a step back, if we have support for backfilling, should > there also be support for retroactive table creation for the database, > for instance, for bulk-loading trace data that wasn't collected using > the Agent+Collector framework? > > Jiaqi > -- Ari Rabkin [email protected] UC Berkeley Computer Science Department
