[Catalyst] flexible attributes on db objects

[Daniel McBrearty]

thanks Perrin. The wikipedia article covers it well.


On 6/8/07, Perrin Harkins <perrin at elem.com> wrote:
> On 6/8/07, Daniel McBrearty <danielmcbrearty at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Comments? horrendous hackery? laziness? a landmine? ok in some cases?
>
> It's pretty well covered by Wikipedia here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entity-Attribute-Value_model
>
> I sometimes use this in places where I have to let end users add
> attributes to objects, but the poor performance and lack of integrity
> constraints make it a poor choice for anything else in my opinion.
>
> - Perrin
>
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