Hi Carlos,

I definitely think its worth it. How were you thinking of indexing this
second table? The way to uniquely identify any individual property in the
property table seems to require 3 fields -- property namespace, property
name and version id? That would indicate that any table you create would
need all three of these as the primary key?

Warwick


-----Original Message-----
From: Carlos Villegas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 8:40 PM
To: Slide Users Mailing List
Subject: Re: max revision limit?




Warwick Burrows wrote:
> Yes, but how much bigger? :-) It seems to be a flaw in the design that 
> there is a version property that constantly grows in length with each 
> new version added. Is this the way the spec defined the value of this 
> property, or is this just Slide's implementation?

It seems to me it's a design flaw.

There are several properties that are a list of values like history and
group-member-set. I was thinking of adding a type identifier field to the
properties table and storing the individual values in a different table, one
per row. That's the usual relational db solution to this problem.

BTW, there's a property_type field in the properties table and the Java
object also has this field, but it doesn't seem to be used. Is it used at
all? If is not can we use it for this purpose?

I volunteer to try to fix at least one of the database stores using this
technique if anybody thinks it's worth it.

Carlos

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