| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org> |
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| To: | Stefan Keller <sfkeller(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] GSoC 2017: Foreign Key Arrays |
| Date: | 2021-10-05 19:15:43 |
| Message-ID: | 202110051915.agicatxbn36k@alvherre.pgsql |
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Hi Stefan,
On 2021-Oct-03, Stefan Keller wrote:
> Just for my understanding - and perhaps as input for the documentation of this:
> Are Foreign Key Arrays a means to implement "Generic Foreign Keys" as
> in Oracle [1] and Django [2], and of "Polymorphic Associations" as
> they call this in Ruby on Rails?
No -- at least as far as I was able to understand the pages you linked to.
It's intended for array elements of one column to reference values in a
scalar column. These are always specific columns, not "generic" or
"polymorphic" (which I understand to mean one of several possible
columns).
Thanks,
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Álvaro Herrera 39°49'30"S 73°17'W — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
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