Re: Using oids

From: Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb(at)eskimo(dot)com>
To: Malcolm Warren <malcolm(at)villeinitalia(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Using oids
Date: 2003-09-03 19:58:30
Message-ID: Pine.GSU.4.44.0309031257191.23907-100000@eskimo.com
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> If we are saying that there will always be backwards compatibility then I
> can sleep at night.
> If we are saying that at some point oids will exist no more then all of a
> sudden I am going to have to re-write an awful lot of code.

Why? Couldn't you do alter table X add column oid int; alter table X
alter oid set default nextval('oids'); create sequence oids ...

Jon

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