Re: counting query - Mailing list pgsql-general

From John Meyer
Subject Re: counting query
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Msg-id 45BCB4DF.50604@gmail.com
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In response to Re: counting query  ("Joris Dobbelsteen" <Joris@familiedobbelsteen.nl>)
Responses Re: counting query  (Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>)
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Joris Dobbelsteen wrote:
>>
>> CREATE TABLE attendance
>> (
>>  attendanceid serial primary key,
>
> Why you have this??? You already have (entered,timeperiod,studentid)
> that you can use, since that must be unique too. Try to avoid surrogate
> keys as much as possible (it really increases performance and
> ease-of-writing for complex queries!


Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't a simple number be a lot easier
to look up than a composite key?

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