Quoth Sam Mason <s...@samason.me.uk>: [...]
> The only table that's really needed to solve your original problem would > be the last one, but the others provide all the checks that the data > is actually going in correctly and may or may not be useful depending > on your problem. The main thing to notice is lots of tables with few > columns, the reason being is that the database normally takes care of > the rows and you, the DBA/programmer, take care of the columns. Thus > the more work you can give to the database the better. [...] > Hope that gives you some ideas! More than enough ideas. Thank you _very_ much. Presenting this kind of 'distributed' data in a useful way is more difficult (at least for me) but I can see now that this is what _relational_ databses are all about, and that once you've grasped how to do this, the advantages are legion. Many thanks once again. Sebastian -- Emacs' AlsaPlayer - Music Without Jolts Lightweight, full-featured and mindful of your idyllic happiness. http://home.gna.org/eap -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
