From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2002 12:10:29 -0400
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Subject: Re: [GENERAL] arrays
Cc: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>,
	Mike Sosteric <mikes@athabascau.ca>, pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
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On 30 Sep 2002 at 12:09, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> 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.

I do not advocate removing them.  I do advocate data normalization. 
Let's say it's a matter of Do The Right Thing(tm) unless you know 
what you're doing.
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Dan Langille
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