On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:36:42AM +0200, Miroslav Suchý wrote:
> Michael Mraka wrote:
>> That's crucial question. It looks like nobody here knows ;).  According
>> to Mirek's investigation it's rudiment from old good hosted ages and it
>> has never been utilized by satellite.
>
> AFAIK hosted never had monitoring enabled. So this is merely from  
> NOCpulse time, before we buy that company.
>
>>>> Why wouldn't we want to have a highly clustered environment with
>>>> several databases?
> Well we can. And it is perfectly valid scenarion. But this part of  
> code/tables assume that each that db has different data.
> Something like - one application server and different database for  
> different environments. And no other part of our code support this.
>
>>> Under the do no harm to Satellite motto for changing/cleaning up   
>>> Spacewalk - I do know that some customers use Oracle RAQ environments 
>>>  for external databases. Does this proposed code change break them, 
>>> or  make it easier to use or no difference either way?
>
> Even with those tables removed will be possible to have database stored  
> in cluster of db.
> I will repeat myself - what will not be possible is: to have spacewalk  
> connected to several db, each with different content.
> In ascii art:
> [ Spacewalk ] _____ [ DB-1 - prod content ]
>               |____ [ DB-2 - stage content ]
>               |____ [ DB-3 - test content ]
> AFAIK we never test, try or encourage to do such setup. And no one but  
> monitoring is able to have such setup.
>
>> I can't imagine how this table(s) can affect Oracle RAC. So - no difference.
> No difference. You can still have this scenario:
> [ Spacewalk ] _____ [ DB-1 - instance 1 ]
>               |____ [ DB-1 - instance 2 ]
>               |____ [ DB-1 - instance 3 ]

Ok I'm good with this change then :)

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