Re: Transaction Strategies for Natural Primary Keys & Cascading Updates

Richard Broersma wrote:
>
> For those experienced using natural primary key designs,  what update
> strategies do you use when updating related tuples within a
> transaction when the primary key is also subject to changes?
>
> For example consider a table is vertically partitioned into two or
> more segments (all related on the natural primary key).  Allowing for
> the primary key to be updated (and cascaded to the foreign keys), are
> there any ways to updated all of the tuples in a single transaction
> using the primary key in the where clause?
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Perhaps table inheritance with OIDS (if I understand the concept of vertical
partitioning correctly)? I'm an amateur at database design, but thought I'd
offer something.
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