我本月在两个不同的工作中遇到了同样的问题:
Version 1: User 1 & User 2 are friends Version 2: Axis 1 & Axis 2 when graphed should have the quadrants colored...
问题是,我没有看到使用RDBMS来存储和查询此信息的优雅方式.
有两种明显的方法:
方法1:
store the information twice (i.e. two db rows rows per relationship): u1,u2,true u2,u1,true u..n,u..i,true u..i,u..n,true have rules to always look for the inverse on updates: on read,no management needed on create,create inverse on delete,delete inverse on update,update inverse Advantage: management logic is always the same. Disadvantage: possibility of race conditions,extra storage (which is admittedly cheap,but feels wrong)
方法2:
store the information once (i.e. one db row per relationship) u1,true have rules to check for corollaries: on read,if u1,u2 fails,check for u2,u1 on create u1,u2: check for u2,if it doesn't exist,create u1,u2 on delete,no management needed on update,optionally redo same check as create Advantage: Only store once Disadvantage: Management requires different set of cleanup depending on the operation
我想知道是否有第三种方法沿着“使用f(x,y)的关键线,其中f(x,y)对于每个x,y组合是唯一的,y)=== F(Y,X)”
我的直觉告诉我应该有一些可以满足这些要求的按位运算组合.类似于两列的东西:
key1 = x&& ÿ
key2 = x y
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任何其他优雅的方法也将非常受欢迎.
谢谢
解决方法
还有一种方法可以通过添加额外约束来使用第二种方法.检查u1< U2:
CREATE TABLE User ( Name VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,PRIMARY KEY (Name) ) ; CREATE TABLE MutualFriendship ( u1 VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,u2 VARCHAR(10) NOT NULL,PRIMARY KEY (u1,u2),FOREIGN KEY (u1) REFERENCES User(Name),FOREIGN KEY (u2) REFERENCES User(Name),CHECK (u1 < u2) ) ;
读取,创建,插入或更新的规则必须使用(LEAST(u1,GREATEST(u1,u2)).