Re: [Gnumed-devel] clin_medication

[Karsten Hilbert]

> >Does it matter if frequency (?term) is of PostgreSQL datatype
> >interval ? You can store any magnitude you wish in that.
> what type does postgres interval appear in python when accessed via  db-api?
As one of the classes in mxDateTime.

> A string  isn't it , "6 hours", "28 days" ?
That's just when you print it.

> and update is by writing a string ?
You can, if you write a properly formatted string to the
field. But you can also use an mxDateTime class.

> At some point , an application is going to try to store some data in 
> clin_medication;
> so what's wrong with getting said data from drugref , which has atc codes ,
> forms and amount_units ?  There is no change to clin_medication, just a 
> program class adapting a specific drug database instance to clin_medication.
> What is wrong with that?
I must have misunderstood. What you say here does sound OK to me.

Karsten
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