Re: [DOCS] Postgresql 8.3X supports Arrays of Composite Types? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Robson Fidalgo
Subject Re: [DOCS] Postgresql 8.3X supports Arrays of Composite Types?
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Msg-id 41534c40904200413y60b140a4wf4305c36efd214c0@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: Postgresql 8.3X supports Arrays of Composite Types?  (David Fetter <david@fetter.org>)
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Hi David,

 

Thanks for your help, but I want a relational-object solution. The solution presented by Tom Lane (Thanks Tom!!!!) runs very well and it is a relational-object implementation (I suggest put a similar example in postgresql 8.3X documentation).

 

Cheers,

Robson.


On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:56 PM, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 06:03:26PM -0300, Robson Fidalgo wrote:
> Hello,
> I am using postgresql 8.3X and I created a table (see example below)
> that has an attribute that is an Array of a Composite Type (ROW).
> However, I do not know how can I insert a record in this table.

You want a normalized table anyhow.  If you want something
denormalized, use a view.

> Example:
>
> CREATE table phone (
>   cod varchar,
>   num varchar);
>
> CREATE TABLE person (
>   name varchar,
>   telephone phone[]);

This is better as:

CREATE TABLE phone (
   cod VARCHAR,
   num VARCHAR,
   PRIMARY KEY(cod, num)
);

CREATE TABLE person (
   name varchar,
   PRIMARY KEY(name)
)

CREATE TABLE person_phone (
   name VARCHAR NOT NULL REFERENCES person(name),
   cod VARCHAR,
   num VARCHAR,
   FOREIGN KEY(cod, num) REFERENCES phone(cod, num),
   PRIMARY KEY(name, cod, num)
);

Cheers,
David.
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