| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Michael Ansley <Michael(dot)Ansley(at)intec-telecom-systems(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Re: [SQL] Object syntax |
| Date: | 2000-10-05 20:07:04 |
| Message-ID: | 10248.970776424@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Michael Ansley <Michael(dot)Ansley(at)intec-telecom-systems(dot)com> writes:
> Given the fact that you have the type (in this case address), and you have
> the OID, wouldn't it be a short step to dereferencing the OID to a tuple,
> and putting it in the result? Or am I being a little optimistic?
Well, other than the fact that OIDs are not "dereferenceable" ---
they're serial numbers, not pointers --- that's doable in theory.
It'd break backward compatibility with POSTQUEL but I doubt anyone
would complain about that. Feel free to start hacking ...
regards, tom lane
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