Re: IS it a good practice to use SERIAL as Primary Key?

From: Scott Ribe <scott_ribe(at)killerbytes(dot)com>
To: Ron Johnson <ron(dot)l(dot)johnson(at)cox(dot)net>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: IS it a good practice to use SERIAL as Primary Key?
Date: 2006-11-27 17:26:01
Message-ID: C1906DB9.5C226%scott_ribe@killerbytes.com
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> Bottom line: check digits are in SSNs

Uhm, no they're not. And this is of course one of the huge problems with
SSNs. (Although not quite as bad as the fact that they're not strictly
unique. Yes, really, duplicates have been issued in the past.)

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