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

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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