Re: Relationship::HasVariant

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On Tue, 12 Oct 2004, Ricardo SIGNES wrote:
> HasVariant is for attributes that are stored, if you will, vertically.
> The table that is joined does not have the same primary key, and it may
> have multiple entries.
>
> I'm using this for a system in which there are a few hundred attributes,
> and I'm constantly getting demands for more.  Any given object has five
> or six.
>
> Obviously, it's easy to just do has_many to get the list of attributes,
> but I want a number of them to be inflatables, and I can't (as far as I
> can tell) selectively has_a the columns without has_variant.

Ooh, I like this. I might rework it to use bitmap indexing for my evil 
project.

Cheers,

A.

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