Re: ForCES Protocol Implementation Issues

"SUBSCRIBE FORCES B. J. Kang" <[email protected]> Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:59:15 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.forces
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On Thu, 13 Sep 2007 02:04:42 -0400, Joel M. Halpern 
<[email protected]> wrote:

>For every table (array) in a Forces Object there is a properties
>object (accessible via the protocol) which includes the first free
>table entry, as well as the last used table entry.  So the
>information the CE needs is always available.
>In fact, since the CE generally created the table, and created the
>entries, it is anticipated that the CE will normally have a mirror
>copy with any annotation information it wants, obviating the need to
>query these fields.
>

What you mean is that I can get the information about which row is free 
without getting all the contents of a table to find the index of free rows?

Because I try to implement Failover, I can not think that Backup CEs have the 
mirror copy of all FEs.

Thanks a lot

>Yours,
>Joel M. Halpern
>
>At 12:50 AM 9/13/2007, B. J. Kang wrote:
>>If I want to add a new route, I must to know which row is free. This
>>is a funny
>>thing. With MySql, I can only assign the data and don't care about which
>>entry is free. Using the ForCES Protocol, operations with tables may be a
>>difficult thing? I think it is unreasonable, isn't it?