Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] No constraints in bacula database

2010-01-08 05:15:39
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] No constraints in bacula database
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2010 10:12:11 GMT
>>>>> On Wed, 06 Jan 2010 11:37:18 +0100, Marek Simon said:
> 
> Hi,
> I do some experiments with bacula database and I found that there is no 
> foreign key constraint between jobmedia and job, jobmedia and media, job 
> and file and many similar logicaly connected tables. Why? Constraints 
> prevent arising void references (File with empty job, File with empty 
> filename, jobmedia record with empty job or media)
> I have bacula-dir version 2.4.4, postgres variant, and postgres 8.3, 
> default instalation.

Bacula inserts huge numbers of records into the File table during backups, so
any constraints on that table could be very bad for performance.

__Martin

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