Re: Noob question about types and lists

From: Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>
To: xchris <lyralyra(at)fastmail(dot)fm>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Noob question about types and lists
Date: 2005-10-06 12:19:15
Message-ID: 43451643.5080701@archonet.com
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xchris wrote:
> On gio, 2005-10-06 at 12:20 +0100, Richard Huxton wrote:
>
>> From the manuals...
>
> I didn't search very well.Sorry!

Easy enough to miss.

>>However - I don't think you want to anyway. If you're going to use a
>>relational database, try a relational approach! Typically, you would do
>>something like [cut]
>
>
> I wanted to use a different approch because addresses don't make any
> sense for other tables and because they are typically few (3,4) and i
> wanted to avoid making a join for this task...
> however.. i will use your approch.

If you're using a relational DB, better get used to joins :-)
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd

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