On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Robson Fidalgo <r...@cin.ufpe.br> wrote:
> Hi David, > > > > Thanks for your help, but I want a relational-object solution. The solution > presented by Tom Lane (Thanks Tom!!!!) runs very well and it is a > relational-object implementation (I suggest put a similar example in > postgresql 8.3X documentation). > > > > Cheers, > > Robson. > > On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 8:56 PM, David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> wrote: > >> On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 06:03:26PM -0300, Robson Fidalgo wrote: >> > Hello, >> > I am using postgresql 8.3X and I created a table (see example below) >> > that has an attribute that is an Array of a Composite Type (ROW). >> > However, I do not know how can I insert a record in this table. >> >> You want a normalized table anyhow. If you want something >> denormalized, use a view. >> >> > Example: >> > >> > CREATE table phone ( >> > cod varchar, >> > num varchar); >> > >> > CREATE TABLE person ( >> > name varchar, >> > telephone phone[]); >> >> This is better as: >> >> CREATE TABLE phone ( >> cod VARCHAR, >> num VARCHAR, >> PRIMARY KEY(cod, num) >> ); >> >> CREATE TABLE person ( >> name varchar, >> PRIMARY KEY(name) >> ) >> >> CREATE TABLE person_phone ( >> name VARCHAR NOT NULL REFERENCES person(name), >> cod VARCHAR, >> num VARCHAR, >> FOREIGN KEY(cod, num) REFERENCES phone(cod, num), >> PRIMARY KEY(name, cod, num) >> ); >> >> Cheers, >> David. >> -- >> David Fetter <da...@fetter.org> http://fetter.org/ >> Phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Yahoo!: dfetter >> Skype: davidfetter XMPP: david.fet...@gmail.com >> >> Remember to vote! >> Consider donating to Postgres: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate >> >> -- >> Sent via pgsql-docs mailing list (pgsql-d...@postgresql.org) >> To make changes to your subscription: >> http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-docs >> > >
