On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Andre Schnabel wrote:
> I simply wonder, if any of the guys ever took a lesson in database design.
> If I had told such wonderful ideas on foreign keys to my professor i'd been
> thrown out the university imediatly.
I agree. While you're at it, tell him you won't have a corresponding drop
for every create, and that outer joins are useless. Then, while he's
laughing at you, tell him you'll restrict data to 8k per row, and that
you won't truncate inserted data, because people will always follow the
rules. Then, as he's rolling on the floor clutching his stomach, tell him
you'll add "cool" stuff like table inheritance before even *considering*
adding the things listed previously. Now he's died laughing. Great.
You've killed your professor. Bastard.
Now. Consider that until 7.1, all of the above was true about Postgres.
Hmm... Bad DB design... what was that you were saying again?
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