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Re: table has many to many relationship with itself - how to implement?

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On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 10:53:36AM +0200, Daniel McBrearty wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a table "phrases" that looks like this :
> 
> create table phrases(
> id serial ,
> language integer references langauges(id),
> content text
> );
 
Might want to avoid bareword 'id' as a field name... it's a great way to
lead to confusion.
 
> insert into table translations ... insert what?
 
INSERT INTO translations VALUES(default) should work. Worst case, you
could always just select from the appropriate sequence.

> The other way to do this that I see is to lose the link table
> translations_to_phrases, and then make translations
> 
> create table translations (
> id serial primary key,
> phrases integer[]
> );
> 
> 
> but it seems that I can no longer make postgre aware that the integers
> in translations(phrases) are references.

BTW, it's "PostgreSQL" or "Postgres" if you must.

> What is the best solution?

I'd just have a sequence for translation_id and grab from it manually
every time you create a translation, then just use that value when you
insert into translation_phrase.
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