On Friday 23 July 2004 03:29 pm, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
>
> You appear to be misunderstanding the purpose of a primary key. A
> primary key is used to ensure there is a way to identify each row
> uniquely. It is quite independent of which columns you may or may not
> want to search on. If name is not going to be necessarily unique in the
> table, it isn't a primary key.
ive not misunderstood anything. this is one of the tables in question:
address_type
id serial PRIMARY KEY
name text UNIQUE NOT NULL
i think it is self explanatory
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