[glue-wg] Placeholder for IDs?

[David Horat]

In my opinion, there should not exist any placeholder for Foreign Keys. If a
FK is mandatory, you need to publish it. If not, just make them optional. If
you put a placeholder in a FK, then the word mandatory has no real meaning.

On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 1:12 PM, <stephen.burke at stfc.ac.uk> wrote:

> > (other than an implication in the placeholder
> > section that strings may be UTF-8).
>
> While I'm at it, another thing that came up recently was that we don't
> seem to have a placeholder for unique IDs, e.g. a mandatory foreign key.
> Do you have any suggestions? (So far I went for "$UNDEFINED$" in the
> absence of inspiration ...)
>
> Stephen
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