[wplug-web] schema for mailing lists

James O'Kane jo2y at midnightlinux.com
Fri Feb 21 16:02:32 EST 2003


On Fri, 21 Feb 2003, David Ostroske wrote:
> Pardon my ignorance in this matter; I'm just trying to help. But, if you
> have complex queries for retrieving email addresses, etc., could you
> define views in the database that would return just the data that
> Mailman would expect? Or are you strictly limited to using only tables?

This would be up to PostgreSQL and markd2, our database guru. I've given 
him final say to any database structure changes. 
I've not dealt with views much. Are they cheaper than an equivelent join?

-james





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