On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 19:58:55 -0800, Poul Jensen <flyvholm@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > This novice must be missing a sneaky way to avoid massive redundancy and > still maintain easy access. I've been suggested to look at inheritance > and foreign keys. Foreign keys I don't see how to use, but I could make > an inheritance hierarchy of the split up tables to make the parent table > columns (mn,tmp,wind in above example) available across tables. But > accessing the rest of the columns still require child-table specific > queries, and my many child tables will not be nicely nested as in above > example, so I still don't see how it can get me there. I could really > use some input. You can also use views. Updatable views can be created using the rule system if you need them. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly