Re: pervasiveness of surrogate (also called synthetic) keys

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pervasiveness of surrogate (also called synthetic) keys
Date: 2011-04-28 18:26:50
Message-ID: 4DB9B16A.7000001@commandprompt.com
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On 04/28/2011 10:29 AM, Jim Irrer wrote:
> A colleague of mine insists that using surrogate keys is the
> common practice by an overwhelming margin in relational databases and
> that they are used in 99 percent of large installations. I agree that
> many
> situations benefit from them, but are they really as pervasive
> as he claims?
Well there is no fact to back that up but, I will say that most toolkits
require the use of a synthetic key, rails, django etc....

JD

>
> Thanks,
>
> - Jim

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