On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Howard Chu <[email protected]> wrote: > The DNA plugin that was written for FedoraDS uses the same strategy that > MySQL uses for auto-incrementing numbers - allocate a span of numbers to a > given node, where every node's span is disjoint. There's no particular > reason not to keep going with this approach, if it's too hard to change the > rest of the software. There's nothing inherently "relational" about this > feature.
That's well said, I agree completely! Also, note that some applications (like pam-ldap) cannot easily change their data model, since they are constrained by other factors (in the case of PAM, the architecture of POSIX systems that mandates that uid and gid numbers be integers, and some systems even have a 16-bit size limitation there). -- Best Regards, Aleksander Adamowski http://olo.org.pl
