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From: Louis-David Mitterrand <vindex+lists-pgsql-sql@apartia.org>
To: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: check constraint on multiple tables?
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 17:38:52 +0100
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On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 10:29:44AM -0600, Little, Douglas wrote:
> Louis,
> Interesting discussion.  Always fun to think about real world stuff. 

Indeed.

> We have a similar problem for comparing hotel rooms. 
> So the issue is that you aren't originating the data, just classifying it. 
> I'd move toward a scheme where you reclassify the line marketing speak
> to common lay terms.  You're trying to help consumers compare.
> Exactly what the marketers don't want them to do. 

I'm leaning towards exactly that: letting the data settle, spot overlap
and general trends, reclassify.

> After all a silk purse is just a sow's ear without marketing. 
> :)

True but cruise customers buy into that marketing and insist on those
slight distinctions between almost identical cabins. 

It's all a question of status and it's what cruise lines sell.

Thanks,



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