Chris, > Monolithic tables have their uses, I don't and wont contest that, however > we've been using a monolithic structure in our current AMS distribution and <snip> > dataset. That and I'm more confident working on a 3D level, versus 2D, the > schema levels introduce the third dimension into my structure and simplify > visualizing how I want things to work.
TMI! TMI! Ok, I believe that it works for you. You've made a tradeoff, though, and some operations that were simple in the old monolithic structure will now be more difficult -- however worthwhile the overall tradeoff may be. > resulting query as he suggested, I just need to learn plpgsql programming > so that I can work out all of the details (Tom, I might bug you about that > once in a while). Just go ahead and post your PL/pgSQL questions to the list. There are people on this list who've written thousands of lines of PL/pgSQL ... -- Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org