History of oids in postgres?

From: James Robinson <jlrobins(at)socialserve(dot)com>
To: bruno(at)wolff(dot)to
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: History of oids in postgres?
Date: 2004-04-28 13:29:15
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Bruno et al,

Any self-repsecting lurker would know that oids as row identifiers are
depreciated in postgres. Can anyone provide a brief history regarding
the reasoning behind using them as row identifiers in the first place?
I see a discussion of their use as various primary keys in he system
catalog in the oid-datatype doc page, but not regarding their history
as 'user-space' row ids.

Thanks,
James

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James Robinson
Socialserve.com

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