C#•7mo ago

Database Design

Generic question. I cannot figure out how to design the database in the following scenario:

| Users |
 -------
| Id PK |

and

| OtherTable |
 ------------
|    Id PK   |
| UserId FK  |
| Value INT  |

| Users |
 -------
| Id PK |

and

| OtherTable |
 ------------
|    Id PK   |
| UserId FK  |
| Value INT  |

OtherTable is in relation with Users, but there is a default Value that should belong to all users. This can be solved by creating a resource with the same value for each user, but I feel like this is a bad practice. What other options do I have? I am using EF with Postgres, but I do not think that matters.

2 Replies

dan in a can•7mo ago

You can use a default value for the column https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-default.html

PostgreSQL Documentation

5.2. Default Values

5.2. Default Values # A column can be assigned a default value. When a new row is created and no values …

Core•7mo ago

Thanks, this would be a good option

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