| From: | Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com> |
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| To: | Michael Glaesemann <grzm(at)myrealbox(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, "'pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org' General" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: OID's |
| Date: | 2004-11-19 02:18:49 |
| Message-ID: | 419D5809.3020409@Yahoo.com |
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On 11/16/2004 4:52 AM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2004, at 6:42 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 10:01 schrieb Joolz:
>>> Michael Glaesemann zei:
>>>> OIDS are a system level implementation. They are no longer required
>>>> (you can make tables without OIDS) and they may go away someday.
>>>
>>> Out of curiosiry: how will we handle blobs once the OID's are gone?
>>
>> They won't go away. This is one reason.
>
> Peter,
>
> You sound pretty certain. I can imagine there might be a way to handle
> BLOBs without OIDs. I'm not saying that I know what it is, but I
> recognize the possibility.
A sequence and converting the blob identifier to int8 would be one ...
Jan
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