Re: Way to stop recursion? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: Way to stop recursion?
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Msg-id 20041126213625.GC2312@phlogiston.dyndns.org
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In response to Re: Way to stop recursion?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:31:11PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> Seems to me that your real problem is a bogus database layout.  If there
> should only be one "common" value for a parent and children, then only
> store one value ... that is, "common" should exist only in the parent.

Tom's answers always make me realise that I should think harder
before I talk.  He's right, of course: one common value means store
it once.

A

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