Re: comments on casts

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: comments on casts
Date: 2003-10-14 06:48:54
Message-ID: 3F8B9C56.5050000@familyhealth.com.au
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> regression=# select oid from pg_cast;
> oid
> -------
> 16420
> 16421
> 16422
> 16423
> 16424
> ... etc ...
>
> It would be a very serious design error if pg_cast didn't have OIDs,
> because then pg_cast entries couldn't have dependency entries in
> pg_depend.

OK. Weird. I could have _sworn_ I tried that and I didn't get an OID
column. Oh well - makes things a lot easier.

Also, with the pg_largeobject table, there seems to be no 'owner'
concept on lobs at all. So is there no problem with any random gumby
commenting on anyone else's large object?

Chris

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