Re: Research and EAV models

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 11:53:26PM +0200, Leif B. Kristensen wrote:

> I'm a researcher type, and I've made an EAV model that suits me well in
> my genealogy research. How can you associate an essentially unknown
> number of sundry "events" to a "person" without an EAV model?

create table person (
pk serial primary key,
who_is_it text
);

create table event (
pk serial primary key,
fk_person integer references person(pk),
what_happened text
);

I'm sure you meant something else, no ?

Karsten
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