Re: Male/female - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andreas Kretschmer
Subject Re: Male/female
Date
Msg-id 20061208153542.GA24919@KanotixBox
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In response to Male/female  ("Raymond O'Donnell" <rod@iol.ie>)
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Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie> schrieb:

> Just wondering.....how do list member represent gender when storing
> details of people in a database?
>
> I've done it two ways:
>
> * A bool column, with the understanding that true/false represents
> one gender or the other.
>
> * Create a domain, something like:
> CREATE DOMAIN gender_domain
>   AS character varying(7)
>   NOT NULL
>    CONSTRAINT gender_domain_check CHECK ((((VALUE)::text =
> 'male'::text) OR ((VALUE)::text = 'Female'::text)))

What about with Hermaphroditism?

SCNR.

Andreas
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