Synopsis: Polymorphic Associations
Let’s look at an antipattern that originates from multiple inheritance relationships.
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Let’s allow users to make comments on bugs. A given bug may have many comments, but any given comment must pertain to a single bug. So, there’s a one-to-many relationship between Bugs
and Comments
. The Entity-Relationship Diagram for this kind of simple association is shown below.
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