On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 12:08:06AM -0800, Brion Vibber wrote:
I think it was once suggested that breaking the page
counters to a
separate table (two numeric columns, ID and count) might be a good idea.
4th normal form isn't really practical; let's shoot for 3rd normal, and
switch to a real database :)
I'm also thinking that maybe a users "options" are better off encoded in
a Cookie? For instance, Set-Cookie: options=101010101010
Would save us from doing ANY database accesses; and if the user ever
changed their display preferences, we could set a new cookie. And
unlike the "login" cookie, this one would be session specific, never
carry across sessions.
Jonathan
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