Re: OID vs overall system performances on high load

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Eric Lauzon <eric(dot)lauzon(at)abovesecurity(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OID vs overall system performances on high load
Date: 2005-05-30 04:02:44
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On Sun, 2005-05-29 at 16:17 -0400, Eric Lauzon wrote:
> So OID can be beneficial on static tables

OIDs aren't beneficial on "static tables"; unless you have unusual
requirements[1], there is no benefit to having OIDs on user-created
tables (see the default_with_oids GUC var, which will default to "false"
in 8.1)

-Neil

[1] Such as a column that references a column in the system catalogs.

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