dynamic naming for hierarchical problem

[Alex Martelli]

"gzeljko" <gzeljko at sezampro.yu> wrote in message
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> From: Jeremy and Debra Jones <dnjjones at yahoo.com>
> >
> > It seems like if you were to do it in a rdbms, you would need at least
two
> > tables:
    ...
> No, one table:
> TBL
> ( PARENT, CHILD, CHILD_ATRIBUTE1,..,
>  PRIMARY KEY (PARENT, CHILD))

Something wrong with this constraint, since it implies a child may
have multiple parents.  I think CHILD by itself needs to be the
primary key.  Otherwise I agree -- no need to use multiple tables
for a parent/child relationship.  Rather, since children appear to
have varying attributes, you'll need to split THOSE off into a table
of their own (with CHILD as a foreign key).


Alex