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 -- GPG key ID E4071346 @ eu.pool.sks-keyservers.net E167 67FD A291 2BEA 73BD 4537 78B9 A9F9 E407 1346 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general