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From: jinglebells5555@yahoo.com (Jingle Bells)
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Subject: Any new thoughts on OTLT (One True Lookup Table)
Date: 3 Mar 2004 09:51:16 -0800
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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?