Re: primary key and existing unique fields

From: "Gregory S(dot) Williamson" <gsw(at)globexplorer(dot)com>
To: "Robby Russell" <robby(at)planetargon(dot)com>, "Kevin Barnard" <kevin(dot)barnard(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: primary key and existing unique fields
Date: 2004-10-27 06:01:38
Message-ID: 71E37EF6B7DCC1499CEA0316A256832801D4B9FF@loki.wc.globexplorer.net
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robby Russell [mailto:robby(at)planetargon(dot)com]
Sent: Tue 10/26/2004 9:08 PM
To: Kevin Barnard
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] primary key and existing unique fields
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 22:03 -0500, Kevin Barnard wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:05:27 -0700, Robby Russell <robby(at)planetargon(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 17:26 -0400, Mike Mascari wrote:
> > > <joking>
> > >
> > > Apparently gamma functions and string theory have little to do with
> > > understanding the relational model of data.
> > >
> > > </joking>
> >
> > mmmmm.. string theory. :-)
> >
>
> Ya you know the theory that states that the Database is really made up
> of a large amount of strings. Some are even null terminated strings,
> although most strings really have a quanta that can be found immediate
> before the string. :-)

How do we SELECT the string so that we can observe it then? ;-)

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You can't observe it ... only *infer* it.

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