Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices

Thank you John R. Pierce. Finally someone who understands the purpose of
this thread. Otherwise, next thing you know, we'll have Web apps/developers
designing bra's for milk cows so they'll look better in the field. :)

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 1:05 PM, John R Pierce <pierce(at)hogranch(dot)com> wrote:

> On 8/24/2015 9:34 AM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
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>> And again, I am talking about _database_ design, not Web apps. Letting
>> Web developers design a database to work with their app, is a very, Very,
>> VERY bad idea.
>> It is far better to let DBA's and "database develeopers" design a good
>> database, then to let those apps mold a db into a non-optimum design.
>>
>
> if you let the app drive the database design, you tend to end up with a
> database which is only useful to that single app, and likely breaks when
> that app changes.
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