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From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: Chris Bowlby <excalibur@hub.org>
To: Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@postgresql.org>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Schema boggle...
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 21:01:58 -0800
Message-ID: <200311052101.58892.josh@agliodbs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.0.20031105220602.00a19700@mail.pgsql.com>
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	<5.2.1.1.0.20031105220602.00a19700@mail.pgsql.com>

Chris,

>   Monolithic tables have their uses, I don't and wont contest that, however
> we've been using a monolithic structure in our current AMS distribution and
<snip>
> dataset. That and I'm more confident working on a 3D level, versus 2D, the
> schema levels introduce the third dimension into my structure and simplify
> visualizing how I want things to work.

TMI!  TMI!  Ok, I believe that it works for you.   You've made a tradeoff, 
though, and some operations that were simple in the old monolithic structure 
will now be more difficult -- however worthwhile the overall tradeoff may be.

> resulting query as he suggested, I just need to learn plpgsql programming
> so that I can work out all of the details (Tom, I might bug you about that
> once in a while).

Just go ahead and post your PL/pgSQL questions to the list.  There are people 
on this list who've written thousands of lines of PL/pgSQL ...

-- 
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco



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