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> On Dec 11, 2014, at 8:43 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I'm generally in favor of making name attributes opaque, utf-8 strings that are entirely user-defined and have no constraints on them. I consider the name to be just a tag that the user places on some resource. It is the resource's ID that is unique.
> 
> I do realize that Nova takes a different approach to *some* resources, including the security group name.
> 
> End of the day, it's probably just a personal preference whether names should be unique to a tenant/user or not.
> 
> Maru had asked me my opinion on whether names should be unique and I answered my personal opinion that no, they should not be, and if Neutron needed to ensure that there was one and only one default security group for a tenant, that a way to accomplish such a thing in a race-free way, without use of SELECT FOR UPDATE, was to use the approach I put into the pastebin on the review above.
> 

I agree with Jay.  We should not care about how a user names the resource.  There other ways to prevent this race and Jay’s suggestion is a good one.

mark


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