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[Doug Hellmann <doug.hellmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Brian Schott <
brian.schott@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> So, we could build on this. No reason to reinvent, but we might want to
> expand the number of events.  I'm concerned about things like what happens
> when flavors change over time.  Maybe the answer is, always append to the
> flavor/instance-type table.  The code I remember and the admin interface
> that Ken wrote allowed you to modify flavors.  That would break billing
> unless you also track flavor modifications.
>

That seems like a situation where you would want to denormalize the billing
database and record the flavor details along with the rest of the creation
event data.

Doug