[OSM-dev] api0.6 - only one value per key?

Stefan de Konink stefan at konink.de
Fri Jan 30 15:18:18 GMT 2009


Andreas Kalsch wrote:
> I have implemented this in an experimental way and it makes sense in any 
> way. Let me know, if you are interested in SQL. The effort to manage 
> this is a little bit higher, but you have a consistent data model which 
> is more lightweight and quicker for lookups (PK lookup is better than 
> k/v lookup). What about this?

If you want multiple keys you could also implement a :1..n scenario. 
Therefore anything that actually supports multiple keys should know 
semantics.

Stefan




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