Re: pro- foreign key propaganda?

Brian Selzer wrote:
...
> I didn't say that it is not necessarily psychological. I said that it had
> nothing to do with the desired or intended interpretation. What does
> psychology have to do with the fact that sometimes you pull the middle beer
> from the left hand side of a fresh six-pack and sometimes the nearest from
> the right hand side? Are we supposed to read something into the fact that
> once in a while you pull the beer furthest away from you on the right-hand
> side? The beer closest to you should taste just as good as the one furthest
> away. The choice of which candidate key is to be primary has as much to do
> with the intended interpretation as the choice of which beer you pull first
> out of a fresh six-pack has on how good it tastes.
> ...

Much as I'm tempted, I'll refrain from calling the first sentence mystical. Does seem pathologically ambiguous, though. Way beyond my ken. Received on Thu May 22 2008 - 05:18:03 CEST