On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 04:59:12PM -0500, Jim Nasby wrote:

> BTW, I found Karsten's idea of using 'pk' for the surrogate key, and
> fk_table_name interesting. It helps avoid ambiguity from externally
> generated ID values.

That's the point :-)

Here's a real live schema using (mostly) the above approach:

        http://www.gnumed.de/~ncq/gnumed/schema/gnumed_v20/

in case anyone is interested in taking a look.

Karsten
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