Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices
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Msg-id 55DB45B1.1030906@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices  (Melvin Davidson <melvin6925@gmail.com>)
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Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices
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On 08/24/2015 08:56 AM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
>  >The "serial" key is the default primary key amongst every single web
> development environment in existence.
>
> Methinks thou doest take too much for granted.
>
> Yes, serial has it's purpose, but I sincerely doubt it is "the default
> primary key amongst every single web development environment in existence"
> I am not sure where you get your stats from. Probably you are referring
> to "Ruby on Rails". IMHO,

Rails
Anything that uses Hibernate (Java)
Django
Every PHP framework
Pyramid
Anything that uses sql-alchemy

I can go on for miles with this. It is true that a lot of these support
non-serial keys. It is also true that is not the default.

JD


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