Re: Multitable uniqueness ?

From: Jean-Luc Lachance <jllachan(at)sympatico(dot)ca>
To: Andreas <maps(dot)on(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Multitable uniqueness ?
Date: 2004-05-26 14:00:29
Message-ID: 40B4A2FD.8030004@sympatico.ca
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Do you really need MANY-TO-MANY between customers and projects?
I can see customers owning many projects, but do you really have
projects belonging to many customers?

If not, fold cust_proj into projects.

Otherwise, UNIQUE (cp_id, stall_no) on stalls should be enough.

Andreas wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Is there a way to have something like this : UNIQUE (table_1.id,
> table_2.xxx)
>
> I got some tables that have a couple of foreign keys. Now I try to
> minimize those relationships to clean up the mess. :-}
> We do business fairs. (???) Like c-bit only a few magnitudes smaller.
> So we have projects and rent stalls to customers.
>
> customers (c_id, ...)
> projects (p_id,...)
>
> there is an relation cust_proj (cp_id, c_fk, p_fk, status_fk)
> with a UNIQUE constraint (c_fk, p_fk)
>
> A customer can have several orders, contacts, ... tied to a project.
>
> Those look like this stalls (stall_id, cp_id, stall_no, ...)
> o_id PRIMARY
> cp_fk FOREIGN KEY that ties to custmer and project
>
> stall_no is a varchar
> It should be unique within a project.
>
> Will I have to integrate the project.id into the stalls-table ?
>
>
>
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