Re: IS it a good practice to use SERIAL as Primary Key? - Mailing list pgsql-general

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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