Paul, et. al., On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 12:00 PM, Paul Poulain <paul.poul...@biblibre.com>wrote:
> In the wiki page http://wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/DB_schema_bugs, an > insconsistency has been noticed: > primary keys column name can be: id (in authorised_values table), xxxid > (cityid), xxx_id (label_id), xxxId (limitId), xxxcode (branchcode), > xxxnumber (borrowernumber) => choose how to name PK and update schema > accordingly > > The bug 7065 add a foreign key to the reserves table, so I think it's > time to clearly choose how we name primary keys. > > The possible options are below, my opinion: > > 1- id alone => will result in complexity & mistakes, this option must > be discarded > 2- xxxxid => short option, may result in hard readability. > 3- xxxxId => we haven't decided if we want UC in field names. I won't > discard this option, but does not favour it. > 4- xxx_id => _ still undecided in field names, I'm not sure it's much > better than the xxxid one > I favor this option. I think it's readable, unlike (2), and short, unlike (6). 5- xxxxnumber => number is quite long, and may result in very long > field names, which is not good. I does not like this option. > Regards, Jared -- Jared Camins-Esakov Bibliographer, C & P Bibliography Services, LLC (phone) +1 (917) 727-3445 (e-mail) jcam...@cpbibliography.com (web) http://www.cpbibliography.com/
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