[Data-modeling] TV sub-episodes

[Jeff Prucher]

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> Jeff Prucher wrote:
> > This would potentially result in a denormalization of 
> sorts, since the 
> > list of people involved in a show comprising multiple 
> segments should 
> > be the union of the list of people for each segment. I think we can 
> > live with this, but it might look a bit odd to some people.
> 
> Can delegation be used?  Although a segment is not an 
> episode, I do not think it is in any way misleading to say 
> that the Dead Parrot Sketch has a /tv/tv_episode/producer of ... .

Delegation would turn all segments into episodes, unfortunately.  (MQL
doesn't require this, but the client does.)

Jeff