Fedor Karpelevitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Jason van Zyl wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > What do people think about adding some description
> > columns to the schema for Groups/Roles/Permissions.
> > Possibly and SHORT_DESC when listing
> > Groups/Roles/Permissions and a LONG_DESC
> > when displaying the details of a Group, Role, or
> > Permission.
> > 
> > For the admin app when looking at the details
> > for Groups/Roles/Permissions all you see is
> > the name. I think it would be nice to have
> > descriptions for these entries.
> 
> Isn't there OBJECT_DATA already which can accomodate this?
> I would probably +1 having single DESCRIPTION field. I do not like 
> cryptic ones like SHORT_DESC. If anyone needs more he can use OBJECT_DATA.

Isn't OBJECT_DATA a serialized Hashtable?  If I want to search a set
of Permissions by description, I do not want the overhead of having to
deserialize a Hashtable from a database when I could just query the
database directly (and *much* more efficiently).

Daniel


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