Farid Khan wrote:
> The table I am creating would be based on a X,Y point. We have serious
> doubts on what this would do to the performance of the system we are
> developing. I am assuming, that a table can have a primary key consisting
> of 2 fields, which together would be unique to the entire table. Would
> indexing this table be the nightmare we think it would be? Has anyone seen
> anything remotely similar out there with 1M+ rows?
Personally I would always choose an extra SERIAL column.
I don't really like the concept of having multiple columns as a PK.
1M doesn't sound like a big problem.
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