pcplantdb

[Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>]

Chad Knepp wrote:

> Richard Morris writes:
>  > Can we lock down the schema, do we want to? By this I mean do we want a 
>  > fixed set of fields for tha plant data. If we do this it kind of locks 
>  > down the database and the type of info which people can add, creating an 
>  > inflexiable system.
>
> No, I don't think it is really a good idea to stop being open to ideas
> about what sorts of information is important to have about plants and
> other elements in the database.  Nor do I think that the current
> schema is optimal and it has a way to go before being "fully
> normalized".  I do see a point where the schema matures in the sense
> that we really don't change it much, but at this point I don't think
> what we have still needs a lot of work.

Indeed I very much agree with you here. This does raise a good technical 
chalange as to how we can build a system to cope with a changable 
schema. Looking forward to Chad's next release.

>  > When new data such as the tanplants data comes along it could be a big 
>  > job to adapt a relational model to fit.

Has anyone had a look at this tanplant data? I've not had feedback from 
anyone on this yet.

Rich