On Fri, 2008-09-26 at 13:10 +0200, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
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> (2) the way we deal with bugs affecting two (or more) packages.
> That's a tricky problem. On one hand, the correct way to solve that
> would be to have a separate "affected_packages" table, with (id,
> package) columns, and also an "affected_sources" table.
> 
> On the other hand, that's makes all queries more complex, because you
> have to join this additional table (and it's not going to be a small
> table).
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No, that's what views are for.  You specify the join in the view.

Ben.

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