What is MySQL primary (key1, key2)?

In the second example you show, the xid yid columns are indexed but nothing prevents your application from entering the same pair of xid yid on multiple rows of the ABC table.

Adding the id column is only worth doing if you are exposing the contents to the user. Either way, it's a typical many-to-many join table.

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