Re: IS it a good practice to use SERIAL as Primary Key?

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: John McCawley <nospam(at)hardgeus(dot)com>
Cc: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com>, pgsql general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: IS it a good practice to use SERIAL as Primary Key?
Date: 2006-11-28 00:02:54
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On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 17:31 -0600, John McCawley wrote:
> I promise I'm not trying to be a pain in the butt ;) Do you then use
> your serial id as your foreign key in other tables, or the
> firstname/lastname primary key?

Now that is a good question. I would use the id, but that is not
technically proper :).

Joshua D. Drake

>
> Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> >users
> >=====
> >id serial unique,
> >first_name text,
> >last_name text,
> >primary key (first_name,last_name)
> >
> >Yes there are problems with the above, namely you will likely have more
> >than one joshua drake.
> >
> >Sincerely,
> >
> >Joshua D. Drake
> >
> >
> >>
> >>
>
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