>From my experience it is always best to have the Primary Key field be an auto-incrementing field. If you have additional fiekds wich might be some kind of serial number or something thats fine, that can be a column with a unique index, but a lot of searches tend to happen on Primary Key's and integer searches on a sorted field tend to be far more efficient than a text search on an unsorted column.
In addition, seperating into a auto-incrementing PK column means that you can alter the other columns ar a whim without worrying about breaking ID associations with other tables etc. On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 6:56 PM, xpanshun <srhen...@gmail.com> wrote: > Also, is there a way to make it so that primary key fields are even > viewable? It seems they are hidden by default... > > On Nov 3, 12:31 pm, xpanshun <srhen...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I've seen this question asked before a lot but from years ago--so > > there wasn't any working response. I am hoping now that its 2010, that > > there is a solution... > > > > I am using Symfony 1.4. I am currently working with the admin > > generator and I have some primary key fields that are NOT numeric auto- > > increment. These fields are varchar that I need the admin to input > > manually. > > > > Is there a way to get such a primary key--or any primary key field to > > be editable or created new on the backend? > > > > Thanks in advance! > > -- > If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to > security at symfony-project.com > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "symfony users" group. > To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<symfony-users%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en > -- Gareth McCumskey http://garethmccumskey.blogspot.com twitter: @garethmcc -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony users" group. To post to this group, send email to symfony-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to symfony-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-users?hl=en
