On Oct 8, 2004, at 10:19 PM, David Garamond wrote:
Michael Glaesemann wrote:In any case, one would never use NULL. Either the domain includes a value for all possible values (including N/A) or you set up the db schema appropriately.
Hm, that can be painful. What if I have ten optional attributes; separate them to ten different tables?
Strictly? That's how I understand it. Whether or not it's performant under PostgreSQLis another matter. :)
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