On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 07:45:40AM -0400, Jim Starkey wrote: > Let me propose an alternative solution for sharding and load balancing > (oh, I hate the very idea of this being user visible!). Suppose you > added a mechanism to associate an arbitrary ordered set of > attribute/value pairs with a connection that would be sent along as part > of the protocol. Your proxy could use these to decide where to direct a > connection. After, after making this weighty decision, it could > pre-pend its own attribute/value pair indicating where it sent the > connection so subsequent statements would go the same place. This has > many advantages:
I do like this.. could be useful for other things too (what those things are, I don't know but extensibility ++) -- Stewart Smith _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

