Re: FW: Male/female

From: Richard Broersma Jr <rabroersma(at)yahoo(dot)com>
To: "H(dot)J(dot) Sanders" <hjs(at)rmax(dot)nl>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: FW: Male/female
Date: 2006-12-08 16:18:12
Message-ID: 679146.19976.qm@web31802.mail.mud.yahoo.com
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> > > Just wondering.....how do list members represent gender when storing
> > > details of people in a database?
> > >
> > > I've done it two ways:
> > >
> > > * A bool column, with the understanding that true/false represents
> > > one gender or the other.
[snip]
> > We have done it with a integer whereby
> >
> > 0 = woman
> > 1 = man
> >
> > also self-documenting :-)
[snip]
This gave me my first good laugh of the day... I will never accuse DBAs of not having a sense of
humor albeit unique!

Regards,

Richard Broersma Jr.

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