Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices - Mailing list pgsql-general
You are right, he was probably talking about FK's. I was just so frustrated about people insisting that using "ID" as the primary key in every table is a "good" idea,
I didn't bother to reply previously. I stand firm on my belief that the primary key should be something meaningful and NOT "id" just for the sake of having a unique numeric key.On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:39 PM, CaT <cat@zip.com.au> wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:22:17PM -0400, Melvin Davidson wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 8:00 PM, Berend Tober <btober@computer.org> wrote:
> >> 1) What happens if someone mis-types the account-id?
> >> To correct that, you also need to correct the FK field in the
> >> other dozen tables.
> >
> > ... ON UPDATE CASCADE ?
>
> I believe he's talking about triggers.
Huh? Why would you use a trigger when FOREIGN KEY has ON UPDATE CASCADE?
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