Ramon Tayag wrote:
> Book having many :prices does make sense.  That way you get to keep
> the history of the price of the book.  Of course, the latest price in
> the association is the current price.
> 
> Ramon Tayag


The problem with that is to get the current price (most uses cases) I 
have to scan the entire 'prices' table.

I'd rather do it in such a way that it only saves the current price, 
year, edition, etc. to a "stats" whenever the book is updated (without 
any explicit association).


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