| From: | Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | clark(dot)evans(at)manhattanproject(dot)com (Clark Evans) |
| Cc: | tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, rbrad(at)hpb50023(dot)boi(dot)hp(dot)com |
| Subject: | Re: OID vs SERIAL? (Was: Re: [HACKERS] Sequences....) |
| Date: | 1999-03-17 23:54:28 |
| Message-ID: | 199903172354.SAA21450@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > It would only mark the the column as an OID that is used for Serial.
> > The same thing with large objects, so it is an oid, and used for large
> > objects. It allows pg_dump and other programs to understand the use of
> > the oid.
>
> So, the serial column and the OID column would be one and
> the same? Why is there a sequence problem then?
It just marks the oid column as being a serial column. We also have
atttypmod, and could easily use that for marking oid's used for serial,
and those used for large objects. Would be nice.
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