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clavalle
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There is no way to enforce data integrity between related tables by virtue of the data model for one thing.
gcr
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I don't get this argument. Foreign key constraints are part of the schema.
What
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the primary key be if not a UUID?
clavalle
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A natural key. It is not always possible, but when it is it should be used.
cortesoft
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an integer id?
billybugmaster
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isn't that what the fk are for? food_uuid for example. I concede I wouldn't call it uuid but I don't see a problem keeping the data straight.
jtmarmon
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?? foreign keys?
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