On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 05:00, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote: > why shouldnt the primary key change? the only key that should never change is > a key that is used as a foreign key in another table. In a table like this: > > id serial unique > name varchar primary key > > name may change - id will never change. id is used as the foreign key
It can change if you use ON UPDATE CASCADE in the foreign key definitions. -- Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver GPG: 1024D/A54310EA 92C8 39E7 280E 3631 3F0E 1EC0 5664 7A2F A543 10EA ======================================== "Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him; do not fret when men succeed in their ways, when they carry out their wicked schemes." Psalms 37:7 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
