VCL storage discussion summary

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <CAJV_h0Yx8t4MoLpfk3kRpukxuyotXHesf4ctATgu2QwFTqvxxA at mail.gmail.com>
, Federico Schwindt writes:

>If setting or using a storage cannot fail I'd say kill _hint (eventually)
>and just use storage.
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>If there is a chance of failing, I'd keep the _hint. I'd avoid having both.
>Having backend_hint and backend is confusing enough already.

I agree, and I'd like to kill backend_hint as well.

That said, in both cases we need to deal with "no setting" and "vmod
returning NULL".

For backend, it's the default backend.

Is it Transient for storage ?

If so, I think we have a decision...


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