I've been reading through the documentation for Kohana ORM and in their example model class it has a block of code like:
protected $_table_name = 'strange_tablename'; // default: accounts
protected $_primary_key = 'strange_pkey'; // default: id
protected $_primary_val = 'strange_name'; // default: name (column used as primary value)
Obviously I know what table name and primary key are but I've never seen the term "primary value" used before, what exactly is it used for?