Any new thoughts on OTLT (One True Lookup Table)

I found a discussion in the archives that was a couple of years old. I'm one man development team working on a small website. I'm designing a database that will have scores of lookup tables and I'm thinking it will be much quicker for me to have one "generic" one than 40 individual ones that are almost completely identical except for the content.

Since I'm using postgres I've also thought about using inheritance but that ties me to postgres.

Any thoughts? Received on Wed Mar 03 2004 - 11:51:16 CST