| From: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com> |
| Cc: | John McCawley <nospam(at)hardgeus(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 00:53:46 |
| Message-ID: | 1164675226.6398.41.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Mon, 2006-11-27 at 17:22 -0700, Scott Ribe 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 :).
>
> But firstname/lastname is *NOT* a primary key. Merely calling it one in the
> db schema does not make it so.
It certainly could be a primary key it depends on the data requirements.
Joshua D. Drake
>
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