On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Sanne Grinovero <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really dislike the idea of having a mutable key, > am I too extreme? isn't this going to bring you loads of problems? > IMHO if it's mutable it is not a key, but of course I don't see the big > picture: > I'm just curious about the design decision.
In some cases perfectly good natural keys do change. In our application a phone number is used to track a user account. There are several ways this number can change. One is when an area code splits; although this is more of a North America Numbering Plan issue than worldwide. Another is if a user moves (again a NANP issue) and then is issued a new local number. I don't think supporting this by issuing a cache eviction is too difficult to support. A cache eviction should occur when an entry with natural IDs is removed anyway. _______________________________________________ hibernate-dev mailing list hibernate-dev@lists.jboss.org https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/hibernate-dev
