Hi Michael,
Relationship names don't have to be globally unique. They have entity
scope (and DB and OBJ are independent from each other).
In fact I often take advantage of relationships with the same name that
belong to different entities. This is one of my favorite patterns. It
allows cool things like reusing a qualifier expression across entities
(e.g. a set of unrelated entities all have relationship "toAddress",
similar to your example).
Andrus
> Andrus:
>
> Out of curiousity, do the names of db-relationships and
> obj-relationships have to be globally unique within a map file?
>
> I have a few cases with relations named toRace where the ids are the
> same race_id to race_id, but the table names change based on the
> source/dest.
>
> I can easily rename things, but going forward, what is the best practice
> when there are similar relations in different tables or objects
> (source_dest)?
>
> -MA
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