Re: store MD5 keys

On Mon, 2002-09-09 at 19:25, Henrik Nordstrom wrote:
> Robert Collins wrote:
>
> > There are a good reasons to have it there. It's very efficient for
> > retrieval IFF you know the method. I'm becoming convinced that we need a
> > two level retrieval structure - URL and metadata.

> For the time beeing this is a reasonable compromise. Normal requests are
> handled in a flat structure, and only the few objects requiring this
> secondary index are imparied by the added overhead.
>
> The long term goal I thought we all have agreed on is to move much of this
> down to the store layer, making storeGetEntryByRequest an async operation
> allowing the store to do any kinds of complex lookups as required.

Yes and we are still agreed AFAIK... In fact, the client_side_reply.c
file in the ESI branch is designed to (eventually) become the external
replacement for store_client, providing a seamless interface to the
store logic.

Rob