From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: Mike Sosteric <mikes@athabascau.ca>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] arrays
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:09:12 -0400 (EDT)
Message-ID: <200209301609.g8UG9Ce23126@candle.pha.pa.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3D983C90.7277.7FF06CB4@localhost>
Dan Langille wrote:
> On 30 Sep 2002 at 8:54, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > As such, I'd reccommend one of two approaches for you:
> >
> > 1) Post some of your schema ideas here, and let us show you how they
> > are better done relationally. The relational data model has 30 years
> > of thought behind it -- it can solve a lot of problems.
>
> Mike,
>
> Just in case you or others think Josh is some crazed lunatic[1] who
> doesn't know what he's talking about, I support his views on this
> topic. Avoid arrays. Normalize your data.
>
> [1] - Actually, I don't think I know anything about Josh, except that
> he's right about normalizing your data.
Yes, arrays have a very small window of usefulness, but the window does
exist, so we haven't removed them.
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