Re: primary key and existing unique fields

I think the same too but sometimes it seems in the real world performance is
given more value than a properly designed db. Or the long term flexiblity is
not taken into account given the short term requirements.
regards
Sally

>From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>
>To: Sally Sally <dedeb17@hotmail.com>
>CC: pgsql-general@postgresql.org, qnex42@gmail.com
>Subject: Re: [GENERAL] primary key and existing unique fields
>Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 12:44:00 -0500
>
>On Thu, Oct 28, 2004 at 14:31:32 +0000,
>   Sally Sally <dedeb17@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > Dawid,
> > I am interested in the first point you made that:
> > having varchar(12) in every referencing table, takes more storage
> > space.
> > The thing is though, if I have a serial primary key then it would be an
> > additional column. Or you are saying the space taken by a VARCHAR(12)
>field
> > is more than two INT fields? ( or is it the fact that when it is
>referenced
> > it will appear several times?) I guess the reason I am resisting the
>idea
> > of an additional primary key field is to avoid the additional lookup in
> > some queries. Perhaps it's a minor almost irrelevant performance factor.
>
>I think it is better to worry about what is going to make it easiest to
>have clean data and to support future changes than worry about performance.
>Over the long run hardware is cheaper than people.
>
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