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From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: joining a table whose name is stored in the primary record
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In response to joining a table whose name is stored in the primary record  (John Gunther <postgresql@bucksvsbytes.com>)
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On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 04:39:51AM -0400, John Gunther wrote:
> functions and using subqueries without success. I think I need someone 
> to point me in the right conceptual direction.

Well, the right SQL-esque conceptual direction is not to have
different tables at all.  That's not a very normal-form thing to do,
because the data has been broken into pieces dependent on the data
itself, rather than the kind of data it is.

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