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From: Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>
To: sad <sad@bankir.ru>
Cc: pgsql-sql@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: surrogate key or not?
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2004 12:58:35 +0200
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В Срд, 21.07.2004, в 09:44, sad пишет:

> 4) Replication:  to identify an object of ANY type (record of any table 
> regardless to datamodel), to store lists of deleted or modified objects 
> (regardless to datamodel)

That sounds like a datamodel on data that belongs to another data model,
and 5) applies.

> 5) Making a primary key: if there is no real key at all.

When there's no key at all, there can't be a surrogate key, as I
understand it. In such cases a generated unique number comes in handy,
and it's a real primary key and no surrogate key.

Спасибо

-- 
Markus Bertheau <twanger@bluetwanger.de>




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