On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 02:03:05PM +0200, David wrote: > If I want to start providing user-customizable defaults to the > database (ie, we don't want apps to update database schema), is it ok > database design to add a table2 record, with a NULL table1_id field? > > In other words, if table1 has no matching table2 record, then the app > will use the table2 record with a NULL table1_id field to get > defaults. Or have a trigger on table1 transparently fetching defaults when necessary. Karsten -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ wwwkeys.pgp.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346