On Fri 19 May 2006 15:18, Paolo Lucente wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 02:38:37PM +0300, Peter Nixon wrote:
> > The only question that remains, is how to handle bytes? Ideally I think
> > the schema should be changed/extended to have an bytesin and bytesout
> > column.. What do you think?
>
> I think that while it would be the best ever solution (with no doubts), it
> will also break many things. And backward compatibility is great priority.
> The actually viable but intuitively less economical solution is to mantain
> the 2 tuples segregated, by assigning them different tags. This should at
> least ease the job of getting out in/out/total traffic and definitely avoid
> the ugly JOINs.

So do you mean having the existing "bytes" column stay which in the case where 
you have a reversed module it would be the sum of both in and out, as well as 
adding a "bytesin" and "bytesout"??

Or did I not understand correctly what you meant?

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