Re: Functional Index Question

On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 09:04:28AM -0400, James B. Byrne wrote:
> To return to my first question.  Is doing this sort of thing considered good a
> practice?

for me - yes. keeping it in database is the best and safest option.
but you might get "issues" with orms.

> where they really belong.  However, the prevailing sentiment of the community
> surrounding Rails seems to hold otherwise so I wonder if this is really the
> right thing to do.

every (or nearly every) community around web-frameworks loves orms, and
thus doesn't like "too smart" databases.

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