Multiple Columns Keys - Good or Bad idea?
Rob Brown-Bayliss <rob@zoostation.cc>
From: Rob Brown-Bayliss <rob@ZOOstation.cc>
To: PGSQL Novice List <pgsql-novice@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-06-11T08:09:54Z
Lists: pgsql-novice
Hi, this is not really a postgres question, more of a design question so I hope no one minds... I have to intergrate data from several sites, updates and new data, etc etc, so I have come up with the following idea: all tables will have a sequence and location column, these two columns are the primary key. each site has it's own location number and own sequence inserted by default. Is this a good idea? would it be better to have just the sequence as primary key, and make sure each site has a different sequence (ie: site one starting at 1, site 2 starting at 10,000,000) The second idea seems a bit kludgy to me, but if I go the first way I have two have two cloumns as links in each table, you know SELECT * FROM foo WHERE key1=77 and key2=4 Stuck and awaiting help... Thanks -- Rob Brown-Bayliss ---======o======---