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Ecto's missing universal foreign key

Retired package: Bugs are bad. This version had a few

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lib/pointer.ex

defmodule Pointers.Pointer do
  @moduledoc """
  A Pointer is a kind of global foreign key that can point to any of
  the tables participating in the abstraction.
  """

  use Ecto.Schema
  alias Pointers.Table

  @primary_key {:id, Pointers.ULID, autogenerate: false}
  @foreign_key_type Pointers.ULID
  schema("pointers_pointer") do
    belongs_to :table, Table
    field :pointed, :any, virtual: true
  end

end

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