Thanks for the ideas. I thought of all of the above. The one I've
been using is the accessor which unions together the necessary
things. My question came up when I wondered if there was some even
more fundamental way to handle these forwards-backwards cases. I'm
glad to know I'm already doing
there is... u do not want to know if A points B or B points A, u want
to know if A and B are related in whatever aspect. That is, A and B
are members of some set X denoting that aspect. i.e. moving the
belonginess out of A and B alltogether.
but this isn't going to make your DB simpler...
Oh, right. I don't know what type of brain fog obscured that basic
relational fact, except that I may have been burning my synapses a bit
too hot lately resulting in a deplorable deficit of
neurotransmitters. Thank you for helping me regain the sight of the
obvious.
On Dec 5, 1:16 am, [EMAIL
On Dec 2, 2008, at 5:54 PM, Eric Ongerth wrote:
Now when I want to find out whether a Foo has a relation to another
Foo, I have to check whether there exists any row in foo_relations
that has the given Foo as either as this OR that. Also, what if I
need backrefs on the foo_relations
