Tom Tobin wrote: > On 5/9/06, gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> are there any scenarios when it's not a good idea to have [Slugs] as >> primary keys? (except some hypothetical situations) > > The short answer: it's always a *bad* idea. > > The slightly longer answer: It's generally a bad idea to have your > primary key be a field with any sort of external meaning; that's why > an arbitrary, autoincremented serial/integer field is typically used. > If you use a slug (for example), your data integrity is hosed the > moment your slug changes (perhaps because you changed the title); all > foreign references to that object will become invalid. >
i see now. thanks for the info. gabor --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
