On 03/05/11 12:57, Rob Sargent wrote: > Hm.. Virtual machines as assets. Mortgage backed securities, anyone. Well, sure ... but the software running on them is tracked as part of licensing compliance efforts, whether or not the virtual hardware its self is an "asset" its self. The DB designer chose to use the host's MAC address to identify the host, and the tracking software can't tell the difference between a VM and a physical host. The other problem with that is that it doesn't deal well with multi-homed hosts. All in all, it's just a dumb design, and was fixed a while ago, but it's an illustration of how something that seems like an obvious natural key doesn't always stay one. -- Craig Ringer -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
