Re: automatic DB cleanup proposal
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2001 13:55:57 +0200
Dear George,
>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.
without going into any detail of the proposal itself, I perceive the
fact that there are external references (allowed) _without "consent"
and without documentation_ a major flaw in the architecture.
In fact, there are mechanisms available already (at least in the RIPE
DB-SW V2.x and V3.x) that allow us to deal with that requirement:
maintainer objects.
>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.
Fair enough, a very valid concern! But I think the proposal is trying
to describe the "user view" and the "abstract behaviour".
>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.
I agree.
>cheers
> -George
Cheers,
and thanks for partcipating in this discussion!
Wilfried.
