Greg Stark <gsstark <at> mit.edu> writes: > I hate knee-jerk reactions too, but just think of all the pain of people > dealing with databases where they used Social Security numbers for primary > keys. I would never use an attribute that represents some real-world datum as > a primary key any more.
I am not familiar with the situation. > In my experience there are very few occasions where I want a real non-sequence > generated primary key. I've never regretted having a sequence generated > primary key, and I've certainly had occasions to regret not having one. http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/soup/archives/007327.asp?rss=1 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
