This did go to the user list too:
http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users/browse_thread/thread/e1b59e17fa5e9d2a#

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:58 PM, Markus Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Do we want to cross post this on the user list?
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> On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 2:04 PM, Nick Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Our current plan for the inventory service is to provide active_record
>> termini for the "facts" and "inventory" indirections. This is to support
>> fast look-up of facts, and search of nodes based on their facts. However,
>> there are already tables for facts, used for storeconfigs, along with an
>> active_record terminus for facts. We want to avoid unnecessarily duplicating
>> this behavior, by reusing the existing tables and terminus. This would
>> result in the same fact data being used by both the inventory service and
>> storeconfigs.
>> The only potential concern we can see with this is users wanting different
>> fact expiration policies for inventory service and storeconfigs. Given the
>> usage scenarios for storeconfigs that we are aware of, this seems unlikely
>> (it sounds like storeconfig fact data is mostly being used as a stand-in for
>> an inventory service). This proposal would have no other effect on
>> storeconfigs.
>> Please share any other comments or concerns you may have related to this
>> proposal, particularly if it would interfere with your current use of
>> storeconfigs. Thanks.
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