Re: check constraint on multiple tables?

On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Louis-David Mitterrand
<vindex+lists-pgsql-sql(at)apartia(dot)org> wrote:

> Each ship is different and has specific cabin types and categories. Of
> course there is some overlap between ships but I thought it simpler (or
> more elegant) to use that hierarchy. Maybe my schema is wrong?

I'm probably ignorant about ships, but are ships like air planes in
that all ships belong to a similar class/construction? i.e. all
Bowing 747 are essentially configured that same. Can you define ship
classes that each ship belongs? You describe cabin_category as if it
is actually an area of this ship, would all ships of a class have
nearly identical ship_areas/cabin_categories?

> I could add an id_ship to 'cabin' but that would make two (potentialy
> conflicting) relations to 'ship'.

It true that more refinement is necessary. As you've mentioned that
this hierarchy will have overlap, this is an indication of a violation
of the second normal form (I believe).

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