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

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

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Piotr Strzyżewski