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Re:Cyclic dependencies are evil (2013) by Too on Sunday January 31, 2021 @01:40AM (#25976644)
Starting from the other end, what is missing in SQL to make it more general purpose?
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Re:Cyclic dependencies are evil (2013) by strokirk on Sunday January 31, 2021 @05:42AM (#25977801)
Generic foreign keys / Polymorphic relations. I.e. table Foo can either point to table Bar or table Xuul.

This type of relation shows up quite a bit, and either leads to application-level workarounds, or having to add many duplicate tables for the same "thing".

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