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Re: challenging constraint situation - how do I make it real in SQL?


  • From: "John D. Burger" <john(at)mitre(dot)org>
  • To: "Harald Armin Massa" <haraldarminmassa(at)gmail(dot)com>
  • Cc: PostgreSQL general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
  • Subject: Re: challenging constraint situation - how do I make it real in SQL?
  • Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 09:30:25 -0400
  • Message-id: <15d22de683381aada63e265d4353b313(at)mitre(dot)org>

I have a business rule which gives me rahter big challenges to "melt in SQL":

At one "point in time" only one version may be active.

I have no specific solution, but I highly recommend Richard Snodgrass's book, Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL, which discusses this kind of situation, and many other similar ones. It's out of print, but available from his homepage as a PDF:

  http://www.cs.arizona.edu/~rts/

- John D. Burger
  MITRE




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