Re: OID Perfomance - Object-Relational databases

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org, jeff(at)pgsql(dot)com
Subject: Re: OID Perfomance - Object-Relational databases
Date: 2000-10-09 23:30:47
Message-ID: 200010092330.TAA26524@candle.pha.pa.us
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There is an FAQ item about oid's already on the web site. It may not
be in 7.0.2.

> Tom, Bruce,
>
> Thanks. I think that gives me a pretty clear picture. How can we
> submit this whole OID thing to the PGSQL FAQ? Want me to write it up?
>
> -Josh Berkus
>
> P.S. BTW, my conclusion based on this discussion is that I will not use
> the OIDs for indexing/linking. Instead, I will embrace Michael's
> earlier suggestion and have already created universal_sq and started
> migrating primary keys to that sequence.
>
> P.P.S. Thank you both for taking the time to hash out this issue.
>
>
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