Re: [development] Taxonomy: Multiple parents?

From reporting/analysis point of view, salmon IS salmon. .s Gerhard Killesreiter wrote:

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Robert Douglass schrieb:

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In my opinion, any time multiple parents are used it is a mistake in the data model. For example, if you have regional offices and each office has a sale, customer and advertising contact person, you might be tempted to model the data like this:

How about:

Fish living in:

- - salt water . shark . salmon . eel . cod

- - fresh water . trout . salmon . eel . carp

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