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If you use an email address, be sure you don't use it as your internal key/identifier for the corresponding accounts. Says someone who's "eternal" email addres
by pasbesoin 9y ago
If you use an email address, be sure you don't use it as your internal key/identifier for the corresponding accounts.
Says someone who's "eternal" email address from a robust institution still very much a going concern, just went away.
- gkop 9y agoWould you clarify why it's worse to use an email address than a username as an internal key/identifier? It seems to me in either case you suffer the problem of, if the email or username changes, needing to update all the "foreign key" references to the identifier throughout your database.
- lathiat 9y agoThat would be my assumption, and feels like a good idea to me. Use the e-mail as the login locator, but not as the primary key.