Re: advice on setting up schema sought

From: <operationsengineer1(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
Cc: danmcb <danielmcbrearty(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: advice on setting up schema sought
Date: 2006-04-11 21:01:08
Message-ID: 20060411210108.75102.qmail@web33314.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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> > t_translations
> > translations_id (pkey - composite of text_id and
> > language_id with a marker such as "_" inbetween.
> > otherwise 1 and 11 ("111") can be confused with 11
> and
> > 1 ("111"). unless someone has a better idea
> (which
> > they likely do).
> > translation (text)
> >
> > would this be an option?
>
> No, you want to use the primary key declaration on
> the table, not the
> column. Done that way you can specify more than one
> column as forming
> the primary key.

like so?

t_translations
language_id (used for table level pkey)
base_text_id (used for table level pkey)
translation (text)

i haven't worked with table level pkeys before. next
time i get pgadmin3 fired up, i'll look into it.

thanks,

oe1

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