[Zope-dev] Re: Mountpoints

[Florent Guillaume]

Tim Peters wrote:
> I think it's worse, but mostly because a key with name "name" is also
> an option in _related_ sections, but with unrelated meaning.  For
> example, if you had a nested <zeoclient> section there it could also
> have specified a "name" key, which would have nothing to do with the
> <zodb> key named "name".  Nesting options with the same name gets
> confusing quickly.  OTOH, I would like the explicit key better if it
> had a different name, say
> 
>     <zodb>
>       multidb-name main
>       <filestorage>
>         path $DATADIR/Data.fs
>       </filestorage>
>     </zodb>
>     <zodb>
>       multidb-name a
>       <filestorage>
>         path $DATADIR/A.fs
>       </filestorage>
>     </zodb>

Yes, please. There is already confusion for cache-size, let's not repeat 
that with another key. Note that "database-name" is more expressive, I think 
(the "multi" seems like an implementation detail to me).

Florent

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