[ovs-dev] [join ovsdb schema v2 0/8] ovsdb-tools changes

Andy Zhou azhou at nicira.com
Tue Jul 7 19:24:54 UTC 2015


On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 9:03 AM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 02:53:32PM -0700, Andy Zhou wrote:
>> OVSDB can be more flexible by supporting multiple schemas. Those multiple schemas can be taken
>> from different releases, or on different feature sets. If the schema tables don't overlap,
>> or for tables do overlap, but columns are not in conflict, those schemas can be joined together
>> into single schema for database operations.
>>
>> I am working towards convert all ovsdb related tools and servers to support multiple schemas.
>> This patch series is the first attempt, which adds support for ovsdb-tool. This will enable
>> more work of other tools and scripts.
>
> Hi Andy.
>
> I'm pretty happy with this series, after skimming through most of the
> patches, but I wonder whether it is useful on its own.  If you're OK
> with it, I'd consider extending the series to add the necessary
> functionality to other tools before we start applying patches to the
> master branch.  Does that make sense?

Yes, I will work on the complete implementation. Thanks for the feedback.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben.



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