Re: [GENERAL] Figuring out relationships between tables.

2009-08-23 Thread Andrew Cooper
Thanks, guys. This really helps out. Andrew -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] Figuring out relationships between tables.

2009-08-23 Thread David Fetter
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 09:47:06AM -0500, Andrew Cooper wrote: > Greetings, > > This is a general database design question. I've got a database where I > need to hold information on employees. Every employee has much of the > same information so I've created an Employee table. Now, some empl

Re: [GENERAL] Figuring out relationships between tables.

2009-08-23 Thread Christophe Pettus
On Aug 23, 2009, at 7:47 AM, Andrew Cooper wrote: An employee can only have 1 manager/supervisor but the hierarchy can be varying depths. Traditionally, that's done by having a "supervisor" field as part of the employee record, with either NULL or a special marker value to indicate "no su