On Oct 8, 2007, at 12:08 PM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
On Oct 8, 2007, at 8:33 , Dave wrote:
I guess, I can always
set up views with joins, but could not come up with a good way to
query this
in a one returned row, e.g.:
ID | Name | colors | fav_col | kind
| fav_kind | etc.
11 | Apples | red, green, etc. | red | Granny smith, Golden
delicious.. | Granny smith | etc.
You can either do it in your middleware or use array_accum.
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/static/xaggr.html
The archives have examples of doing things like this.
Note that *this* is the problem you're trying to solve, not the
serialization issue you're having above. I recommend changing your
schema.
I, also, agree. The "problem" you're trying to avoid with having
separate tables for colors, kinds, etc. is exactly what a relational
database is for.
Erik Jones
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