Re: PostgreSQL Developer Best Practices

On 08/24/2015 09:34 AM, Melvin Davidson wrote:
> And again, I am talking about _database_ design, not Web apps. Letting
> Web developers design a database to work with their app, is a very,
> Very, VERY bad idea.

Again this is not restricted to Web apps. Anything that touches a
database via an ORM is fair game.

> It is far better to let DBA's and "database develeopers" design a good
> database, then to let those apps mold a db into a non-optimum design.

Aah, the perfect world I do not live in.

>
> On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 12:26 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com
> <mailto:jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>> wrote:
>
> 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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