On Sun, 15 May 2011 00:05:13 +0930, Daron Ryan wrote about [GENERAL]
Duplicated Fields:

>  I am designing a database that will include at lot of duplicated
> data. 
>Does Postgres perform many optimisations to eliminate duplications of 
>fields or should I create additional tables to reference myself?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization

You should do it yourself.  It is called "data normalization", and all
good database designers have been doing it for decades.
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Regards,

Dave  [RLU #314465]
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