Re: automatic DB cleanup proposal
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 20:28:00 +1000
I think the base principles behind cleanups are great, and I intend proposing
APNIC explore a similar course of action to the manual sweep.
I am worried that there may be *external* referencees to objects, and while
we have no 'contractual' obligation it might not be nice to do this
to people without some engagement but I expect most people would welcome
losing a path to spam.
As to automatic sweeping, I think there are problems with link counting
which are similar to those we've faced in discussing cross-database linkage
and references. Too many risks of the link count getting out of whack.
I think you could use it as a guide to a sweep, but not as a determinant
without some review and other checks. Eg to trigger more exhaustive checks
to see if there are are references in twisty ways.
cheers
-George
