Re: Noob question about types and lists - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Richard Huxton
Subject Re: Noob question about types and lists
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Msg-id 43451643.5080701@archonet.com
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In response to Re: Noob question about types and lists  (xchris <lyralyra@fastmail.fm>)
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xchris wrote:
> On gio, 2005-10-06 at 12:20 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
> 
>> From the manuals...
> 
> I didn't search very well.Sorry!

Easy enough to miss.

>>However - I don't think you want to anyway. If you're going to use a 
>>relational database, try a relational approach! Typically, you would do 
>>something like [cut]
> 
> 
> I wanted to use a different approch because addresses don't make any
> sense for other tables and because they are typically few (3,4) and i
> wanted to avoid making a join for this task... 
> however.. i will use your approch.

If you're using a relational DB, better get used to joins :-)
--   Richard Huxton  Archonet Ltd


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