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What’s wrong with the new url-keys in Magento? – Fabrizio Branca
Some musings by Fabrizio Branca on changes to Magento’s product URL handling. I haven’t dug deeply into this, but it sounds like there’s a new typed (vs. a varchar), per store EAV attribute for product URL keys with unique indexing, but the unique indexing hasn’t been thought through completely. Hopefully this is fixed up before the 1.8 CE alpha becomes the shipping version.