Ahhh! Perhaps such a view coupled with an instead of trigger might
work...I'd need to think about that, but that might work. Thanks
Michael.

On Mar 4, 6:12 pm, "Michael Bayer" <mike...@zzzcomputing.com> wrote:
> robneville73 wrote:
> > here's my issue...I have to map to an existing Oracle db table with
> > 33million rows (yeah, I know). This table has no primary key and
> > worse, nothing, and I mean nothing to uniquely identify a row
> > (fabulous).
>
> > as a backup, I realize that I can manually issue statements to this
> > thing via SA, but I'd really like to use it through the ORM like I am
> > everything else.
>
> > this table is a transaction table, so 99% of the time, it's only
> > inserts. However, there is a flag on the table to indicate that it's
> > been processed by a batch process so that flag does get updated.
>
> > Is there some way I can map rowid or something as the primary key? I
> > think it's mostly safe since we aren't using partitioned tables and
> > since these records are effectively never deleted while the system is
> > running, I don't have to worry about the rowid getting reassigned on
> > me mid-transaciton.
>
> > My issue is that on insert or update, I don't want SA trying to
> > generate and/or insert into rowid for obvious reasons....
>
> > Am I on the right track, any other ideas??
>
> perhaps map to a view that adds in "rowid" as a surrogate primary key.  
> The ORM can't do writes on this table, however.   It needs to issue an
> UPDATE or a DELETE, for example, therefore needs a pk.
>
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