Re: Address Table

From: Nabil Sayegh <postgresql(at)e-trolley(dot)de>
To: Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
Cc: Rudi Starcevic <rudi(at)oasis(dot)net(dot)au>, pgsql-novice <pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Address Table
Date: 2003-06-27 13:19:33
Message-ID: 1056719972.3251.19.camel@billy
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Am Fre, 2003-06-27 um 05.10 schrieb Josh Berkus:
> Rudi,
>
> > One other option, as Nabil suggested, is to have the foreign key the other
> > way round. Ie. the parks_address key in the parks_table.
>
> No offense to Nabil, but I can't see a good reason to employ that design.
> He's suggesting sort of a "backwards key", which could cause all kinds of
> headaches.

My assumption was (and still is): that at 1 address there could be N
objects (not only parks, imagine a mall with several shops, restaurants,
cinemas)

But if you're sure that each address is unique to 1 address ...

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