Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices

From: "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>
To: Melvin Davidson <melvin6925(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: John Turner <jjturner(at)energi(dot)com>, pgsql-general General <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, Ray Cote <rgacote(at)appropriatesolutions(dot)com>
Subject: Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices
Date: 2015-08-24 16:26:25
Message-ID: 55DB45B1.1030906@commandprompt.com
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On 08/24/2015 08:56 AM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
> >The "serial" key is the default primary key amongst every single web
> development environment in existence.
>
> Methinks thou doest take too much for granted.
>
> Yes, serial has it's purpose, but I sincerely doubt it is "the default
> primary key amongst every single web development environment in existence"
> I am not sure where you get your stats from. Probably you are referring
> to "Ruby on Rails". IMHO,

Rails
Anything that uses Hibernate (Java)
Django
Every PHP framework
Pyramid
Anything that uses sql-alchemy

I can go on for miles with this. It is true that a lot of these support
non-serial keys. It is also true that is not the default.

JD

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