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Re: Surrogate keys (Was: enums)

Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>

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From: Michael Glaesemann <grzm@myrealbox.com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Cc: mark@mark.mielke.cc, "Pollard, Mike" <mpollard@cincom.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2006-01-20T02:41:36Z
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On Jan 20, 2006, at 10:50 , Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:

>> Yes. Representation of the DNA is probably best. But - that's a  
>> lot of
>> data to use as a key in multiple tables. :-)
>
> No then you have problems with identical twins :)

And, looking forward, clones.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com