Re: [Postfixadmin-devel] Adding arbitrary field to mailbox table

[Christian B. <pos...@cb...>]

Hello,

Am Mittwoch, 6. April 2011 schrieb Luigi Rosa:
> I wish to add a couple of fields to mailbox table for administrative
> purposes.
> 
> Is there a correct way to select the names of the fields in order not
> to break the database structure update process?

We don't have a policy on this - at least until now.
I guess we should define one...

Just as idea: (I'm open to feedback and/or better ideas ;-)
- you can use any fieldname starting with "x_"
- you can create indexes if needed (also prefix them with x_ (or
  tablename_x_ for PostgreSQL)
- avoid creating unique indexes and foreign keys if possible (they could 
  make scheme changes difficult)

Would that be OK for you?

@David: what do you think?


Regards,

Christian Boltz
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