Second method might be better.
Of course, you could also do a one chracter gender "M/F" if you want to
save space.
Raymond O'Donnell wrote:
> Just wondering.....how do list member represent gender when storing
> details of people in a database?
>
> I've done it two ways:
>
> * A bool column, with the understanding that true/false represents
> one gender or the other.
>
> * Create a domain, something like:
> CREATE DOMAIN gender_domain
> AS character varying(7)
> NOT NULL
> CONSTRAINT gender_domain_check CHECK ((((VALUE)::text =
> 'male'::text) OR ((VALUE)::text = 'Female'::text)))
>
> I personally prefer the second, as it's self-documenting...is there
> any other/better way of doing it?
>
> --Ray.
>
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