Re: [GENERAL] Why not cascade? (was: Using varchar primary keys)

2013-04-04 Thread Merlin Moncure
On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 2:58 AM, Gavan Schneider wrote: > On 3/4/13 at 1:49 PM, dix1wji...@sneakemail.com (Julian > tempura-at-internode.on.net |pg-gts/Basic|) wrote: > >> ... having to really think it out is probably a good sign that you >> should stick to a surrogate unless you are really sure. (

[GENERAL] Why not cascade? (was: Using varchar primary keys)

2013-04-03 Thread Gavan Schneider
On 3/4/13 at 1:49 PM, dix1wji...@sneakemail.com (Julian tempura-at-internode.on.net |pg-gts/Basic|) wrote: ... having to really think it out is probably a good sign that you should stick to a surrogate unless you are really sure. (again I don't advocate ON UPDATE CASCADE as a solution should yo