X-Original-To: pgsql-sql-postgresql.org@postgresql.org Received: from localhost (wm.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46D0A9FB2F2 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:07:47 -0300 (ADT) Received: from postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (mx1.hub.org [200.46.204.128]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 92536-04 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 19:07:31 +0000 (UTC) X-Greylist: from auto-whitelisted by SQLgrey- Received: from main2.mycybernet.net (main2.mycybernet.net [209.222.63.140]) by postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A7069FB2C2 for ; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 16:07:31 -0300 (ADT) Received: from 227-54-222-209.mycybernet.net ([209.222.54.227] helo=phlogiston.dydns.org) by main2.mycybernet.net with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GDQw3-0007En-AK for pgsql-sql@postgresql.org; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:20:15 -0400 Received: by phlogiston.dydns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F1FCD4051; Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:07:24 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 15:07:24 -0400 From: Andrew Sullivan To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org Subject: Re: OT: OpenDatabase Model ? Message-ID: <20060816190724.GE25228@phlogiston.dyndns.org> References: <44E343D6.1010906@solnet.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44E343D6.1010906@solnet.homeip.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: Maia Mailguard 1.0.1 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.135 tagged_above=0 required=5 tests=FORGED_RCVD_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200608/125 X-Sequence-Number: 26083 On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 06:12:06PM +0200, Jesper K. Pedersen wrote: > > Doing a bit of database work for several friends (golf clubs and so on) > I was very keen to start using a sort of "standard" and not least open > database model with predefined tables. If I understand your question correctly, I think this is what the various Normal Forms are for, no? A -- Andrew Sullivan | ajs@crankycanuck.ca Everything that happens in the world happens at some place. --Jane Jacobs