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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