Re: Normalising UDD to some extend?

[Andreas Tille <tillea@rki.de>]

On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:

> Having a big single table might be a performance win compared to several
> shorter tables that you would often need to join.

Yes - I kept this in mind but wanted t hear your opinion about this.

> Also, during import, for each package, you would need to compare if the
> already stored description matches the one being inserted.

DDTP stores MD5 hashes to solve this.

> Btw, the following packages have different descriptions or long
> descriptions on different arches:
> default-jdk
> default-jre
> default-jre-headless
> gedit-plugins
> libxenomai1
> nvidia-kernel-2.6.26-1-amd64
> openjdk-6-jre
> openjdk-6-jre-headless
> qvwm (only alpha different from others, apparently)

So probably my suggestion becomes voud as well.

Thanks for clarifying this

         Andreas.

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