Re: primary key and existing unique fields - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Gregory S. Williamson
Subject Re: primary key and existing unique fields
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Msg-id 71E37EF6B7DCC1499CEA0316A256832801D4B9FF@loki.wc.globexplorer.net
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In response to primary key and existing unique fields  ("Sally Sally" <dedeb17@hotmail.com>)
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-----Original Message-----
From:    Robby Russell [mailto:robby@planetargon.com]
Sent:    Tue 10/26/2004 9:08 PM
To:    Kevin Barnard
Cc:    pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject:    Re: [GENERAL] primary key and existing unique fields
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 22:03 -0500, Kevin Barnard wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:05:27 -0700, Robby Russell <robby@planetargon.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 17:26 -0400, Mike Mascari wrote:
> > > <joking>
> > >
> > > Apparently gamma functions and string theory have little to do with
> > > understanding the relational model of data.
> > >
> > > </joking>
> >
> > mmmmm.. string theory. :-)
> >
>
> Ya you know the theory that states that the Database is really made up
> of a large amount of strings.  Some are even null terminated strings,
> although most strings really have a quanta that can be found immediate
> before the string. :-)

How do we SELECT the string so that we can observe it then? ;-)



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You can't observe it ... only *infer* it.



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