[OSM-dev] Handling of towns with different or alternative names

[Simon Ward]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 12:07:20AM +0000, I wrote:
> Presumably this is mainly for performance.  An index doesn’t have to be
> unique though—is this a limitation of MySQL

To answer myself: It’s not a limitation of MySQL.

> or is there some other reason to enforce uniqueness?

Simon
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