Re: Avoiding repeating simple field definitions

From: John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Avoiding repeating simple field definitions
Date: 2017-02-02 15:32:33
Message-ID: 575d60d2-1e7b-9abe-eb66-839eff56a7b9@hogranch.com
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On 2/2/2017 7:20 AM, Guyren Howe wrote:
> I saw a thing somewhere about avoiding repeating the same field
> definitions. So an app I’m working on uses an exactly 6-character
> sting as an identifier, which appears in many places.

are you talking about data normalization ?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization

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john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz

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