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From: Rich Shepard <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Lookup tables
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2025 06:46:41 -0800 (PST)
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On Tue, 4 Feb 2025, Rob Sargent wrote:

> I would definitely add an Id for each of the looked up values. The code
> can use the Id (for the join or lookup) and the string value can safely be
> changed (think typo) without ripple effect.  It also prevents other tables
> from referencing the lookup witrh bogus values (those not in the lookup
> table)
>
> Unless your lookup tables are huge I would create a new table matching
> your current table but with an identity column and load from you original
> table.
> https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-identity-columns.html

Thanks, Rob. Each lookup table has only a very few rows,

I'll make new tables today.

Regards,

Rich

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