Maybe it had to do with string comparisons being more expensive than numeric comparisons? I think you can make whatever datatype you'd like a primary key.
On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 13:41 -0400, Karen Hoofnagle wrote: > Hey, all I have a db in production that uses a whole lot of string > values as primary keys. (It's Oracle, FWIW) Does DBIX::Class care > what data type a primary key is? I *vaguely* remember hearing some > sort of remark in the Catalyst master class Jon Rockway taught at YAPC > that this is an issue, but I might have imagined it. > > Thanks, > Karen > >
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