Re: My honours project - databases using dynamically attached entity-properties

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Gregory Stark <stark(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>
Cc: Edward Stanley <Edward(dot)Stanley(at)mcs(dot)vuw(dot)ac(dot)nz>, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, Sean Utt <sean(at)strateja(dot)com>, Andrew Hammond <andrew(dot)george(dot)hammond(at)gmail(dot)com>, josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: My honours project - databases using dynamically attached entity-properties
Date: 2007-03-14 15:50:50
Message-ID: 20070314155050.GA14491@fetter.org
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On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 02:28:03PM +0000, Gregory Stark wrote:
> "David Fetter" <david(at)fetter(dot)org> writes:
>
> > CREATE TABLE symptom (
> > symptom_id SERIAL PRIMARY KEY, /* See above. */
> > ...
> > );
> >
> > CREATE TABLE patient_presents_with (
> > patient_id INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES patient(patient_id),
> > symptom_id INTEGER NOT NULL REFERENCES symptom(symptom_id),
> > UNIQUE(patient_id, symptom_id)
> > );
>
> I'm just glad I don't have your doctor. I hope mine doesn't think
> symptoms are all boolean values.

What's in the symptom table is up to the doctor.

Cheers,
D
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