From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-04-13T11:01:46+09:00
Subject: Re: [OT] Re: How to check record duplication before saving?


On Apr 12, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Todd Benson wrote:
>
> It gets even worse with built in functions like auto_increment, where
> you've tossed all identity of the tuple to the wind (think of moving
> such a table to another db).

yeah that's valid.  i have at least one db where every id is a  
globally unique uuid - and by globally i mean according to rfc.  still

olddb.id

is a valid concept...

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