Re: comments on casts

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: comments on casts
Date: 2003-10-14 06:30:57
Message-ID: 6819.1066113057@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> Is it true to say that it's impossible for me to allow comments on
> casts, as there is no OID on the pg_cast table?

Eh?

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.

regards, tom lane

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