| From: | Ron Johnson <ronljohnsonjr(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Lookup tables |
| Date: | 2025-02-04 14:59:48 |
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On Tue, Feb 4, 2025 at 9:28 AM Rich Shepard <rshepard(at)appl-ecosys(dot)com>
wrote:
> Should lookup tables have a numeric FK column as well as the description
> column?
>
Does your lookup table just have one column? (That's what your question
seems to imply, but that makes no sense, since the whole point of a lookup
table is to store some sort of a code in the "child" table instead of the
whole text of the description.)
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