Hi all,
I have a table "phrases" that looks like this :
create table phrases(
id serial ,
language integer references langauges(id),
content text
);
Simply a word or phrase in some language.
Now I want to express the concept of a "translation". A translation is
a number of phrases from different languages that are a translation of
each other. There is nothing else to say about a translation - though
it does need to be referencable by other tables, so it needs an ID.
One way to do this is with these two tables:
create table translations (
id serial primary key
);
create table translations_to_phrases (
translation_id integer references translations(id),
phrase_id integer references phrases(id),
primary key (translation_id, phrase_id)
);
Now this actually works as a data structure; the translations table is
a bit odd, having only an id, but that is all we really need.
Can I do this though? can I create a row in translations?
insert into table translations ... insert what?
The other way to do this that I see is to lose the link table
translations_to_phrases, and then make translations
create table translations (
id serial primary key,
phrases integer[]
);
but it seems that I can no longer make postgre aware that the integers
in translations(phrases) are references.
What is the best solution?
Thanks
Daniel
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