[Pdx-pm] Eliminating circular table relations.

[Ovid]

--- "David E. Wheeler" <david at kineticode.com> wrote:

> I went into some detail on this approach in presentations at the last  
> two OSCONs. I used it to model OO inheritance in the database  
> (meat_account inherits from account). You can get the slides here:
> 
>    http://conferences.oreillynet.com/presentations/os2006/ 
> wheeler_david.pdf
>    http://www.kineticode.com/docs/polymorphic_database_design.pdf
> 
> I also use it extensively in Object::Relation, my ORM module that I  
> expect to get back to hacking sooner or later.

I'd be happy to see more of that.  I think Object::Relation is a great
solution to ORM problems (though I admit I might be a bit biased since I've
hacked on it).  I think a 'HOWTO' tutorial might be a great start!

Cheers,
Ovid

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