On Tue, 2013-05-28 at 14:18 -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > * Why the sql schema is so denormalized (IMO, leads to both > > bandwidth and disk overspending without speed benefits)?. For > > example: Why provides and requires tables do not use the common > > domain table? > > B/c it was designed 8yrs ago and we were going for compressable space > and making it as quick as possible to search? It wasn't just that, I did the work to normalize it ~5 years ago: http://james.fedorapeople.org/yum/patches/yum-metadata-parser-ids.patch ...but the download savings were so minimal (IIRC ~1% saving on the .bz2 file) it just didn't seem worth the effort, and any downsides. Ofc. anyone else has been free to run with it if they want to. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
