Re: Lookup tables
Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
From: Rich Shepard <rshepard@appl-ecosys.com>
To: pgsql-general <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-02-04T15:08:41Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Tue, 4 Feb 2025, David G. Johnston wrote: > The point of a lookup table is to provide a unique list of authoritative > values for some purpose. Kinda like an enum. But having the label serve as > the unique value is reasonable - we only add surrogates for optimization. David, The industrytypes table has 26 rows, the statustypes table has 8 rows. Your explanation suggests that for this database adding a PK to each table adds little, if anything. Regards, Rich