[mb-users] Re: MusicBrainz-users Digest, Vol 53, Issue 16

[David K. Gasaway]

On 17 Jan 2008 at 12:28, Brian Schweitzer wrote:

> But if you dig back 2 or 3 months in
> the style list, I posted a list of 12 or 15 different catcorner cases I'd
> run into, and how each type falls into that funky 5% which requires
> "creative" interpretations of CSG. :P  (ie, they don't quite fit into a
> database well unless you made the database much much more complex than the
> other 95% of works/movements need.)

The solution needn't be complex.  Add a string field to the table where 
you free-form that 5%.  And a boolean field if want to clearly mark the 
corner cases.

> This may be more one of those CSG issues to pin down (and perhaps we ought
> to move this over to the style list then)

Let's do.  I honestly didn't mean to spark a style debate on mb-users, 
I was just (for the moment) asking your intentions.

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