Integer foreign key types?

[Jean-David Beyer]

Colin Law wrote:
> 2009/7/21 Jean-David Beyer <jeandavid8 at verizon.net>:
>> Colin Law wrote:
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> I suppose it is much too late to put in a plea for the foreign keys in the
>>> database to be integer types rather than character guids?  I will appologise
>>> in advance as no doubt this was discussed ad nauseum long ago.
>>> I am looking at possibilities for accessing the db via alternative routes
>>> and some of this would be much easier with integer keys.
>>>
>> I do not understand your question. What stops you from defining a database
>> that has integer foreign keys?
>>
> 
> I am talking about the gnucash database (this is a gnucash list).
> 
Sorry. My mistake. I thought I was on the postgresql list.

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