[BioSQL-l] description in bioentry

Hilmar Lapp hlapp@gnf.org
Wed, 4 Sep 2002 13:05:28 -0700


Would anyone have a problem with adding a column Description to 
table Bioentry?

It's a qualifier right now, which means joining 3 tables just for 
getting the description (well, there's some caching, so it boils 
down to an additional query, but still). IMHO almost every bioentry 
is going to have some sort of descriptive text; I don't see what's 
the real downside of making this an explicit column. And I'd like to 
keep the adaptor code as simples as possible ...

Any objections to me making this change?

	-hilmar
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