| From: | Tino Wildenhain <tino(at)wildenhain(dot)de> |
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| To: | Bob Pawley <rjpawley(at)shaw(dot)ca> |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Postgresql <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Arrays |
| Date: | 2006-01-27 06:57:45 |
| Message-ID: | 43D9C469.1040903@wildenhain.de |
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Bob Pawley schrieb:
> Our application will be dispersed amongst many users.
>
> I want to keep the datbase as generic as possible.
>
you can "disperse" custom datatypes as well.
If this isnt an option, I'd go for a true relational
approach with a units table and your main table
(value,min,max,unit_id) as real columns.
Regards
Tino
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