Re: [GNUe-dev] Unique IDs in GNUe Appserver

[Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra]

On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 16:40, Reinhard Müller wrote:

> I also believe we don't necesarily need a UUID. What we need is a
> meaningless primary key for every table that is portable over different
> database backends and gerenated automatically by appserver.

        I don't see this need for surrogate keys.  Sometimes, especially if the
modelling is good, the natural key is good enough with less overhead.


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