Hi I have a table "phrases" that looks like this : create table phrases( id serial , language integer references langauges(id), content text ); Simply a word or phrase in some language. Now I want to express the concept of a "translation". A translation is a number of phrases from different languages that are a translation of each other. There is nothing else to say about a translation - though it does need to be referencable by other tables, so it needs an ID. One way to do this is with these two tables: create table translations ( id serial primary key ); create table translations_to_phrases ( translation_id integer references translations(id), phrase_id integer references phrases(id), primary key (translation_id, phrase_id) ); Now this actually works as a data structure; the translations table is a bit odd, having only an id, but that is all we really need. Can I do this though? can I create a row in translations? insert into table translations ... insert what? 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. What is the best solution? Thanks Daniel -- Daniel McBrearty email : danielmcbrearty at gmail.com www.engoi.com : the multi - language vocab trainer BTW : 0873928131
