Re: pervasiveness of surrogate (also called synthetic) keys - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: pervasiveness of surrogate (also called synthetic) keys
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In response to pervasiveness of surrogate (also called synthetic) keys  (Jim Irrer <irrer@umich.edu>)
Responses Re: pervasiveness of surrogate (also called synthetic) keys
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On 04/28/2011 10:29 AM, Jim Irrer wrote:
> A colleague of mine insists that using surrogate keys is the
> common practice by an overwhelming margin in relational databases and
> that they are used in 99 percent of large installations.  I agree that
> many
> situations benefit from them, but are they really as pervasive
> as he claims?
Well there is no fact to back that up but, I will say that most toolkits
require the use of a synthetic key, rails, django etc....

JD

>
> Thanks,
>
> - Jim


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