Re: Globally Unique IDs, was Re: [SQLObject] Re: SQLObject

[Luke O. <lu...@me...>]

I second Edmund's comments: GlobalIDs have a few specific
purposes (which I personally try to avoid :)), but in the
discussion of SQLObject being specially aware / making
internal use of them, I'm opposed.

- Luke

Quoting Edmund Lian <el...@in...>:

>
> On 04/11/2003 01:47:59 PM Bud P.Bruegger wrote:
>
> >But what do you think of Globally Unique IDs?
>
> Seems unavoidable in certain situations--e.g.,
> implementing an access
> control mechanism where you want to grant/revoke rights
> to all sorts of
> data scattered across all sorts of tables in a consistent
> way. I've had to
> do this myself, and I use triggers and rules to
> generate/delete the global
> IDs.
>
> I've yet to see a need to have global IDs in any other
> situation though.
> Use of global IDs seems to arise mostly when one tries to
> force an RDBMS to
> behave like an object store.
>
> ...Edmund.
>
>
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