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[Bob Jolliffe <bobjolliffe@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree.  I raised the same point with Lars last week and we concluded we
could probably drop that uniqueness constraint.  Lars, can you think of
anything which breaks as a result of doing it?

2009/12/11 Ola Hodne Titlestad <olatitle@xxxxxxxxx>

> Hi,
>
> I know there might have been some discussion on this in the past, but in
> stead of browsing through all my mails, a quick question:
>
> No that a category option only can exist within one category why do we need
> the unique name constraint on catoptions?
> Within one category we should have unique names for its option, but why
> across categories?
>
> This constraint is making it more difficult to come up with good and
> consistent names for category options, e.g I have two categories
> VCCT_age and PMTCT_age and they share some of the age groups, and now I
> need to name age differently (e.g. '15-49 y' and '15-49 years') in the two,
> which is stupid I think.
>
> Can we get rid of this constraint?
>
> Ola
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