Re: surrogate key or not? - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Kenneth Gonsalves
Subject Re: surrogate key or not?
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Msg-id 0407231327461F.01150@thenilgiris.com
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In response to Re: surrogate key or not?  (Karsten Hilbert <Karsten.Hilbert@gmx.net>)
Responses Re: surrogate key or not?  (Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>)
Re: surrogate key or not?  (Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>)
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On Friday 23 July 2004 12:27 pm, Karsten Hilbert wrote:

> BTW, our full schema is here:
>
> http://www.hherb.com/gnumed/schema/

i was looking at your schema. i'm not a database pro, but in master tables i 
see you have made the serial id as the primary key. i do it this way:

id    serial unique
name    varchar(25) not null
primary key is name - after all, you are going to search this on name arent 
you? or is there some advantage in doing it your way?

also, how did you get that neatly formatted output of the schema?
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