On 10/1/2005 4:21 AM, Andreas Pflug wrote:
> Jan Wieck wrote:
>>> Creating invalid nodes strikes me as the wrong way to do things.
>> 
>> Chris and I talked about it and I didn't like the idea at all. 
> 
> I'd have appreciated if your private discussion would have been a bit 
> more public, as I triggered it and have been waiting for any answer for 
> quite a while.
> 
>> The thing 
>> is, all those "virtual" nodes would represent are admin stations, no? 
> 
> Yes. BTW, if a machine is a real node also, it can reuse that node's 
> path information happily.
> 
>> And all those are good for is to store their admin conninfo as sl_path 
>> entries. Considering the amount of extra care to be take 
> 
> All I could locate was preventing to create listens for those nodes.
> 
>> (so that this 
>> dead info doesn't affect any failover/switchover ... don't we already 
>> have problems enough there) compared to storing that data in a separate 
>> table that is automatically propagated ... I suggest separate table.
> 
> No problem with that (would need two tables, sl_adminnode and 
> sl_adminpath). Unless this goes into a 1.1.2, we'll have a gap of 
> administrability between 1.0 and 1.2.

This is a feature and hardly classifies as bugfix. So 1.2 it will be.


Jan

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