From: | Andrew Sullivan <andrew(at)libertyrms(dot)info> |
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To: | PostgreSQL General List <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: oid's and primary keys on insert |
Date: | 2002-08-12 14:22:17 |
Message-ID: | 20020812102216.D17166@mail.libertyrms.com |
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On Fri, Aug 09, 2002 at 08:23:54PM -0700, Joe Conway wrote:
> I had the exact same experience. Having a 2 column primary key on every
> table (and hence for every foreign key as well) gets unmanageable pretty
> quickly.
You could write a trigger which populates the primary key as a
combination of site_id and trans_id. Then you still get the
advantage of a simple sequence plus a site id, without needing a
two-column primary key. Of course, then you pay the price of a
trigger every time you insert.
A
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