Re: [CDBI] Sequences with multiple primary keys

Andrew Gianni <agianni-LjRBWs/[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.class-dbi
Message-ID <C0B843ED.16830%[email protected]>
On 6/16/06 11:11 AM, "Perrin Harkins" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Andrew Gianni wrote:
>> The one-to-many tables off of that table have at least two
>> primary keys: the foreign key from the main table as well as a unique id for
>> that table, which also comes from a sequence specific to that table.
> 
> May I ask why?  I can't see a reason to include the foreign key in this
> table's primary key if it already has a unique ID.  Maybe what you want
> there is a unique constraint instead?

Ask our database architect, I can't pretend to understand either, but it's
what I have to work with :P

Andrew
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