Re: UDD and bugs assigned to two or more packages
On 27/09/08 at 01:49 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 01:10:52PM +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> >
> > (2) the way we deal with bugs affecting two (or more) packages.
> > That's a tricky problem. On one hand, the correct way to solve that
> > would be to have a separate "affected_packages" table, with (id,
> > package) columns, and also an "affected_sources" table.
> >
> > On the other hand, that's makes all queries more complex, because you
> > have to join this additional table (and it's not going to be a small
> > table). Currently, there are only 78 unarchived bugs (out of 69982)
> > which are affected to 2 or more packages (select count(*) from bugs
> > where package like '%,%').
> >
> > One possibility would be to keep the package/source columns in bugs, but
> > add tables with (id, package) and (id, source). That way, people not
> > interested in this case can join the additional table, while others can
> > just ignore it. It would only increase a bit the time needed to import
> > the bugs (about half an hour currently, only I/O bound).
>
> I was thinking about adding the bug two times in the bugs table.
That's quite dirty, as it would cause the other information to be
duplicated as well (e.g a "bugs per submitter" query). Also, it would
require changing the primary key for the bugs table (it's the id,
currently).
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