Re: default to WITHOUT OIDS?

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Ashley Cambrell <ash(at)freaky-namuh(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: default to WITHOUT OIDS?
Date: 2003-01-11 05:35:22
Message-ID: 1042263322.383.25.camel@tokyo
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On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 21:27, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> So what actually is the point of OIDs then?

My understanding is that they're used to uniquely identify entries in
system catalogs. If there's a good reason to make use of OIDs on user
tables, I can't see it...

Cheers,

Neil
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