[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Martin Pihlak) writes:
> Tons of details have been omitted, but should be enough to start discussion.
> What do you think, does this sound usable? Suggestions, objections?

Slony-I does some vaguely similar stuff in its handling of "connection paths"; 
here's the schema:

create table @[EMAIL PROTECTED] (
        pa_server                       int4,
        pa_client                       int4,
        pa_conninfo                     text NOT NULL,
        pa_connretry            int4,

        CONSTRAINT "sl_path-pkey"
                PRIMARY KEY (pa_server, pa_client),
        CONSTRAINT "pa_server-no_id-ref"
                FOREIGN KEY (pa_server)
                REFERENCES @[EMAIL PROTECTED] (no_id),
        CONSTRAINT "pa_client-no_id-ref"
                FOREIGN KEY (pa_client)
                REFERENCES @[EMAIL PROTECTED] (no_id)
) WITHOUT OIDS;
comment on table @[EMAIL PROTECTED] is 'Holds connection information for the 
paths between nodes, and the synchronisation delay';
comment on column @[EMAIL PROTECTED] is 'The Node ID # (from sl_node.no_id) of 
the data source';
comment on column @[EMAIL PROTECTED] is 'The Node ID # (from sl_node.no_id) of 
the data target';
comment on column @[EMAIL PROTECTED] is 'The PostgreSQL connection string used 
to connect to the source node.';
comment on column @[EMAIL PROTECTED] is 'The synchronisation delay, in seconds';

I wouldn't be surprised to find there being some value in using
something like SQL/MED.

One detail I'll point out, that I'm noticing from an application I'm
working on right now.  We might want to have something like a "db
connection" data type; here's a prototype I put together:

slonyregress1=# create type dbconn as (port integer, dbname text, username 
text, password text, ssl boolean);
CREATE TYPE
slonyregress1=# create table dbconns (id serial primary key, db dbconn);
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE will create implicit sequence "dbconns_id_seq" for serial 
column "dbconns.id"
NOTICE: CREATE TABLE / PRIMARY KEY will create implicit index "dbconns_pkey" 
for table "dbconns"
CREATE TABLE
slonyregress1=# insert into dbconns (db) values ((5432, 'slonyregress1', 
'slony', 'secret!', 'true'));
INSERT 0 1
slonyregress1=# select * from dbconns;
 id | db 
----+--------------------------------------
  1 | (5432,slonyregress1,slony,secret!,t)
 (1 row)

I'm not certain that this is forcibly the right representation, but I
think it is possible that we'd want a finer-grained representation
than merely a connection string.
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