Re: OIDs (Or: another RTFM question?)

Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder wrote:

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> Yo!
>
> Browsing through the online docs, I see the special columns documented
> in http://www.postgresql.org/idocs/index.php?sql-syntax-columns.html .
>
> But I'm missing discussion about significance of the oids - something
> along the lines of 'Creating tables WITHOUT OIDS does *not* safe any
> disk space, but does <give you what?> at the expense of <what? being not
> backward compatible, I guess>.'

Yes, WITHOUT OIDs just prevents the oid counter from incrementing as
quickly and perhaps rolling over. In 7.3 I think WITHOUT OID may save
storage so I am going to avoid documenting it at this point.

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