From: Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-pgsql-sql@apartia.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: is there a 'table' data type in pg?
Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2007 14:42:46 +0200
Message-ID: <20070724124246.GA22602@apartia.fr> (raw)
Hello,
In my forum app a new post can be related to several types of objects:
person, location, event, simple text subject, etc. so in my 'forum'
table I plan to add an id_subject column which can contain a reference
to any number of different tables (location, person, etc.). What I need
to know is to _what_ table the id_subject belongs.
Can I use a another column to store the type of the id_subject (ie: the
tabled it belongs to) ? Then I would be able to query that table for
additional info to print alongside the forum posts.
Thanks for your insights,
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