Re: Proposal - temporal contrib module - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeff Davis
Subject Re: Proposal - temporal contrib module
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Msg-id 1257356823.27737.492.camel@jdavis
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In response to Re: Proposal - temporal contrib module  (Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>)
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On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 12:08 -0500, Chris Browne wrote:
> I'm
> a lot less certain about the merits of PK/FK constraints - it is a lot
> less obvious what forms of constraints will be able to be applied to
> particular applications.

Can you clarify, a little?

A temporal key just means "non-overlapping periods of time", and that
has a very clear meaning with respect to scheduling.

Regards,Jeff Davis



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