[Catalyst] RFC: Catalyst::Controller::REST::DBIC

[Matt S Trout]

On Sun, May 04, 2008 at 09:33:50AM -0700, Steve Atkins wrote:
> Part of the problem here might be the wish to avoid a natural
> primary key in the database schema, preferring a synthetic
> primary key even when there's a perfectly good natural
> primary key.
> 
> That's something that I expect to see from the ruby on
> rails crowd, not the (presumably more pragmatic) perl folks.

Actually, sometimes a synthetic primary key even when there's a perfectly
good natural one is important. For e.g. InnoDB always clusters by the PK,
so depending on your access patterns it can be a hell of a lot more
efficient.

Pragmatism is a many-edged sword :)

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