On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:07 PM, Jonathan Wage <jonw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Just having a model with record_type and record_type_id, and you would set
> the fields yourself?

> - Jon

> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:02 PM, Alex <outroa...@gmail.com> wrote:

>> What would be an alternate solution?

>> - 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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