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[Ed Leafe <ed.leafe@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 15, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Jay Pipes wrote:

> This is getting totally off-track :)

	Of course! Don't all email threads do that?  :)

> My point was that if you are going to put data in a database table,
> the attributes that go into the main table should be the attributes
> that are common to all types of an entity, otherwise, use the table
> that stores the custom key/value pairs.

	Sure, that's just good database design. I was just addressing the fact that with the addition of zones and the distributed scheduler, the current method of determining a suitable host for a new instance is going to change radically, and it will not be relying on database tables to get its information.



-- Ed Leafe