[ovs-dev] [PATCH] [RFC] ovn: add start of ovn-nbctl

[Gurucharan Shetty]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 04:34:15PM -0400, Russell Bryant wrote:
>> On 03/16/2015 12:08 PM, Russell Bryant wrote:
>> > +Commands:\n\
>> > +  add-lswitch               Create a logical switch\n\
>> > +  list-lswitch              List configured logical switches\n\
>>
>> I ran into odd thing with "add-lswitch".  There isn't a friendly way to
>> refer to logical switches you've created.  Perhaps it would make sense
>> to just add a "name" to the schema for a logical switch.  Thoughts?
>
> I think that's reasonable.  We designed the schema with use by
> programs in mind, not use by humans, and programs are happy enough
> with UUIDs and so on, so we left out names.  But it doesn't cost much
> to add a "name" column, so I guess we might as well do it.

If names are added, is there a requirement that the name be unique? If
that is the case, would it not be hard for Neutron to maintain unique
names across tenants?