Re: fs-independent quotas

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden%schemamania.org@localhost>]

On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:11:07 +0200
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost> wrote:

> > It is not. It assigns values to keys, not all keys need be present
> > in the table.
> 
> Nor in the tree-based dictionnary, or in the multidimentionnal array.
> What a table can't easily express is that a line of this table can be
> of variable lenght, and some of its fields are optionnal.

A missing value in a table is marked by NULL.  I can think of several
ways to represent that in C.  

A table with a variable-length row is not a table.  

--jkl