[db-wg] NWI-4 - role of status: field in multivalued status context - reprise

Dear all,

maybe someone from the NCC would feel inclined to comment on the
feasibility of the below?

Thanks & best,

	-C.

On 21.05.2021 12:55, Piotr Strzyzewski via db-wg wrote:
> On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 12:45:35PM +0200, Carsten Schiefner via db-wg wrote:
> 
> Hi Carsten,
> 
>> after a quick chat with Dennis on this, he encouraged me to toss this
>> into the seemingly stalled, but not yet dead debate:
>>
>> Right now, only the "inet[6]num:" attribute is the primary key to, of or
>> for inet[6]num objects.
>>
>> I wonder if it would be possible to make the tuple
>> ("inet[6]num:","status:") the primary key instead: that should solve the
>> challenge to have an assignment that shall have the size of an allocation.
> 
> This is very good idea.
> 
>> In case this has been exhaustedly discussed here already, please excuse
>> my ignorance - I then obviously have failed to spot the respective
>> contribution in the archives.
> 
> I do not recall such discussion.
> 
> Best,
> Piotr