> - alex (from iphone)

> On 14-May-08, at 1:43 PM, "Jonathan Wage" <jonw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I think that column aggregation is the best solution right now.

> - Jon

> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Alex < <outroa...@gmail.com>
> outroa...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> But with column aggregation I also have to define an additional column
>> manually. It generates a TYPE column, but then I also need to create a
>> TYPE_ID column so that the vote corresponds to the right item or topic.

>> What's the ideal solution?

>> - alex (from iphone)

>> On 14-May-08, at 11:51 AM, "Jonathan Wage" < <jonw...@gmail.com>
>> jonw...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Simple inheritance is one table with all columns on the parent.

>> You want something like column aggregation inheritance it sounds like.

>> - Jon

>> On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Alex < <outroa...@gmail.com><outroa...@gmail.com>
>> outroa...@gmail.com> wrote:

>>> What exactly is simple inheritance? With what I have below, it doesn't
>>> create any addiotional tables. How will I be able to query only votes
>>> for Items?

>>> Thanks!

>>> Vote:
>>>  tableName: votes
>>>  actAs:
>>>    Timestampable:
>>>      created:
>>>        name: created_at
>>>        type: timestamp
>>>        format:Y-m-d H:i:s
>>>      updated:
>>>        disabled: true
>>>  columns:
>>>    id:
>>>      unsigned: 0
>>>      primary: true
>>>      notnull: true
>>>      autoincrement: true
>>>      type: integer
>>>    user_id:
>>>      unsigned: 0
>>>      primary: false
>>>      notnull: false
>>>      autoincrement: false
>>>      type: integer

>>> VoteItem:
>>>  inheritance:
>>>    extends: Vote
>>>    type: simple

>>> VoteComment:
>>>  inheritance:
>>>    extends: Vote
>>>    type: simple

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