-----Original Message-----
From: Robby Russell [mailto:robby@planetargon.com]
Sent: Tue 10/26/2004 9:08 PM
To: Kevin Barnard
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] primary key and existing unique fields
On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 22:03 -0500, Kevin Barnard wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 17:05:27 -0700, Robby Russell <robby@planetargon.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2004-10-26 at 17:26 -0400, Mike Mascari wrote:
> > > <joking>
> > >
> > > Apparently gamma functions and string theory have little to do with
> > > understanding the relational model of data.
> > >
> > > </joking>
> >
> > mmmmm.. string theory. :-)
> >
>
> Ya you know the theory that states that the Database is really made up
> of a large amount of strings. Some are even null terminated strings,
> although most strings really have a quanta that can be found immediate
> before the string. :-)
How do we SELECT the string so that we can observe it then? ;-)
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