[ale] [OT] AJC Article on State Welfare System

James P. Kinney III jkinney at localnetsolutions.com
Mon Aug 26 09:54:18 EDT 2002


Tee Hee! There goes the database!

Seriously, if one were designing a politician_table, why bother with a
scruples field anyway? The default could be set for null, but it would
seem to be a waste of storage space!

On Mon, 2002-08-26 at 09:35, Geoffrey wrote:
> Irv Mullins
> 
> > Ah, my friend, there's a lot PostgreSQL can't do, for example:
> > 
> > 1. remove politicians' hands from the taxpayer's pockets.
> > 2. prevent politicians from taking payoffs from every company which wants to 
> > bid on the job
> 
> Oh, I don't know...
> 
> DELETE FROM politian_table WHERE scruples = NULL
> 
> 
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> Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric at 3times25.net
> 
> I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
> to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?
> 
> 
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