On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 14:35:01 +0200, Jose Gonzalez Gomez <jgonzalez.openinput@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The problem comes when you have questions that may be not applicable > (8), or optional (doesn't know, doesn't answer) (9). The easy solution > would be to have four tables: > > yes_no > yes_no_not_applicable > yes_no_optional > yes_no_not_applicable_optional How about having a table with the valid codes for each question? This should be relatively easy maintain and you can easily set up a foreign key reference to this table to enforce integrity. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match