On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 11:50:09AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > What you are basically saying below is... web 2.0 developers such as > rails developers have so fundamentally broken the way it is supposed to > be done, we should too... I don't know that's all there is to it. After all, we support arrays in the database, which ought to make any relational purist shudder. It seems to me that there _are_ legitimate limits to single-back-end approaches, even for well designed systems, and being able to spread some of that load around would be a big advantage. I just don't want to do it without thinking hard about what the compromises might be, and figuring out which ones to make. "Breaks transactional model", for instance, is right out :) A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I remember when computers were frustrating because they *did* exactly what you told them to. That actually seems sort of quaint now. --J.D. Baldwin
