I'm curious to know why simply having a UNIQUE constraint on the column is inadequate...

-JF

On Nov 7, 2006, at 6:47 PM, Michael Fischer wrote:


Any thoughts on using BINARY(N) or CHAR(N) as a primary key?

Performance issues? In mysql, in general?

Yes, in the context of the application, there is a very good
reason for doing this, and not using an auto increment integer.


Michael
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