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[Robert Collins <robert.collins@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 10:36 AM, Danilo Šegan <danilo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> Sorry but I have to focus on this one.  It's seems there's a persistent
> perception that Rosetta uses tables that are somehow out-of-this-world
> compared to the rest of the LP, but this simply isn't true anymore.  For
> ~2 years at least.  How do people get this perception?  (I am wondering,
> because I want to change that perception: around 6 months ago, I heard a
> similar complaint from JamesT.)

It was true for a long time; I wasn't saying anything negative about
Rosetta here - just to say that we have the system having three main
sources of data growth:
 - user data
 - derived data which the representation can be changed/tuned
 - historical data we can get rid of.

Rosetta has a huge dataset to work with, and I'm glad to know that
individual tables are better sized than they used to be.

Its natural and normal that individual bits of the system will have
data falling into all three categories, on an ongoing basis.

-Rob