Re: Proposal for new field type: CompositeField

2009-12-25 Thread Andy Mikhailenko
Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't understand how is this different from having a bunch of separate fields. The CompositeField adds a namespace, but foo.bar_x=1 seems to be no harder to read than foo.bar.x=1. I must admit that this field solves another problem well: it makes easier to copy se

Re: Proposal for new field type: CompositeField

2009-12-25 Thread VernonCole
Let me give a hearty YES to this proposal. I have been told that a composite field, like this, is a violation of good database design, and that a 'true' relational database cannot have this feature. That is why the guy who designed the database I helped implement in 1982 did not call his design '