Re: Male/female - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Male/female
Date
Msg-id 1165597983.3243.50.camel@state.g2switchworks.com
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In response to Re: Male/female  (John Meyer <john.l.meyer@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Male/female  (Berend Tober <btober@seaworthysys.com>)
Re: Male/female  (brian <brian@zijn-digital.com>)
Re: Male/female  (Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>)
Re: Male/female  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
Re: Male/female  ("Raymond O'Donnell" <rod@iol.ie>)
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On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 10:44, John Meyer wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
> > On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 03:23:11PM -0000, Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> >> Just wondering.....how do list member represent gender when storing
> >> details of people in a database?
> >
> > I usually use a table called gender which has one TEXT column, that
> > being its primary key.  For one client I had, there were seven rows in
> > this table.
>
> Seven genders?  Even San Fransisco thinks that's over the top.

Let's see.

Male
Female
Hermaphrodite
Trans (MTF)
Trans (FTM)
Neuter

and... I can't think of a seventh possibility.

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