From: | "Merlin Moncure" <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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To: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
Cc: | "John Meyer" <john(dot)l(dot)meyer(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Male/female |
Date: | 2006-12-08 20:23:41 |
Message-ID: | b42b73150612081223hd49f2faxfe11f3684c5fb3e0@mail.gmail.com |
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On 12/8/06, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 09:31 -0700, John Meyer wrote:
> > > COPY gender (gender_pk, gender) FROM stdin;
> > > 0 (unknown)
> > > 1 Male
> > > 2 Female
> > > 3 Trans
> > > \.
> >
> >
> > Not to take this completely off track, but isn't transgendered not so
> > much a gender as it is a process of moving from one gender to another?
>
> Yes, but further I don't know of any country that recognizes anything
> but Male or Female.
what if you are maintaining a database for a surgeon who performs sex
changes? we may have to consider the element of time here! I'd go
with a composite type with custom input and output functions (for
privacy)! What about simple bacteria (unisexual)? hm. maybe a new
branch of calculus is in order here.
merlin
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