Gay Marriage: the database engineering perspective
2008 November 25
One of the less visible objections to the legalisation of Gay Marriage is the impact on bureaucratic databases. Many databases, just like many people, are set up to think of marriage as involving one person from a male category and one person from a female category, and cannot handle anything else.
Among other things, this guy discovers that once you remove the “man and woman” limitation you have to add a check to ensure somebody isn’t married to themselves. Because apparently you can’t marry yourself.
