Re: [Gnumed-devel] Questions re database schema - normalization

[Horst Herb]

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 19:50, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> >         suburb text,    (then why not for key to public.urb)
>
> Because NO ONE HAS YET SUCCEEDED IN EXPLAINING THE DIFFERENCE
> BETWEEN URB AND SUBURB IN AU.

There is none. The term "suburb" is used in Australia gratuitously even on 
official forms to express any of the following "city", "suburb", "town" or 
even just "hamlet".

Horst