[PDB-tech] Change of ID's for Internet Exchanges

[Jeroen Valcke]

On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 5:25 PM, Matt Griswold <grizz at 20c.com> wrote:

> * Jeroen Valcke <jvalcke at opendns.com> [150706 18:25 +0200]:
> > Hello,
> >
> > We're working on getting our in-house application compatible with the
> >   new PeeringDB API.
> > We've noticed that the id's for the Internet Exchanges seems to have
> > changed. Is this intentional?
> > This change seems weird, especially since other id's remain unchanged.
> > Could we possible revert this and use the 'old' ID's?

It was intentional, part of the IXF db normalization. Is that breaking
> something on your side?
>

We have the PeeringDB id as a column in our local IX table. To work around
this change, we've had to (manually) add the new id for every record in a a
new column. Nothing too annoying, just wanted to make sure this is indeed
an intended change.
A mapping table would be convenient.

-Jeroen-
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