Re: Create on insert a unique random number

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 01:40:42PM -0500, Campbell, Lance wrote:
> This is not a security approach.  It is more about not giving obvious
> access to people that want to mess around.

1. keep primary key using standard serial. it will make your life a bit
simpler.
2. add column for text random identifiers (it doesn't have to be number,
and adding characters makes for much better "randomness").
3. check this:
http://www.depesz.com/index.php/2007/06/25/random-text-record-identifiers/

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