Thread: Inherit or Foreign Keys

Inherit or Foreign Keys

From
"Ben-Nes Michael"
Date:
Hi All

I want to make a site that's contain articles in multi language. ( The same
article can be seen for example in English, French .... )

I thought of two ways.

1. using Foreign keys.
main tables containing the fields which are not seen like id, settings .....
second table with foreign key to the main ID & field saying the language
name and all the others fields are the translations.

2. using inherit
main tables containing the fields which are not seen like id, settings .....
Second table called as the language name that will inherit the main one with
all the translated fields as title, author ....

Which method looks better for the list ?
Speed is important too :)

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Re: Inherit or Foreign Keys

From
Bo Lorentsen
Date:
On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 18:03, Ben-Nes Michael wrote:

> 1. using Foreign keys.
> main tables containing the fields which are not seen like id, settings .....
> second table with foreign key to the main ID & field saying the language
> name and all the others fields are the translations.
Please go for this solution.

>
> 2. using inherit
> main tables containing the fields which are not seen like id, settings .....
> Second table called as the language name that will inherit the main one with
> all the translated fields as title, author ....
The OO model i PG is not ready for real use, yet, So, please don't use
it for production.

/BL