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Many-to-many using the same table 2 times

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
20/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php
Domain
backend, database

Research direction

No file, test, or entry point is named. Start by reviewing the repository's relationship and naming conventions, then determine whether self-referential many-to-many relationships are supported. Done would require a decided column-naming convention and corresponding documented or tested support.

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Description

Hello,
How columns should be names to allow a many-to-many relationship when the same table is referenced, for example

table customer(id)
table customer_customer(id, customer_id, other_customer_id, other_data)

how the other_customer_id should be named to be respect compliant?

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PHP
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