From: | Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-pgsql-sql(at)apartia(dot)org> |
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To: | pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: check constraint on multiple tables? |
Date: | 2010-03-03 16:38:52 |
Message-ID: | 20100303163852.GA24445@apartia.fr |
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On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 10:29:44AM -0600, Little, Douglas wrote:
> Louis,
> Interesting discussion. Always fun to think about real world stuff.
Indeed.
> We have a similar problem for comparing hotel rooms.
> So the issue is that you aren't originating the data, just classifying it.
> I'd move toward a scheme where you reclassify the line marketing speak
> to common lay terms. You're trying to help consumers compare.
> Exactly what the marketers don't want them to do.
I'm leaning towards exactly that: letting the data settle, spot overlap
and general trends, reclassify.
> After all a silk purse is just a sow's ear without marketing.
> :)
True but cruise customers buy into that marketing and insist on those
slight distinctions between almost identical cabins.
It's all a question of status and it's what cruise lines sell.
Thanks,
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