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

Hi Carsten,

The DB team will create a proof of concept to see if this is feasible, and I will report our findings to you and the DB-WG.

Regards
Ed Shryane
RIPE NCC


> On 8 Jun 2021, at 12:03, Carsten Schiefner via db-wg <db-wg at ripe.net> wrote:
> 
> 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
>