| From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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| To: | Rick Delaney <rick(at)consumercontact(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Adriaan Joubert <a(dot)joubert(at)albourne(dot)com>, admin <admin(at)wtbwts(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Oids vs Serial fields (was Re: [GENERAL] searching oid's) |
| Date: | 2000-01-16 17:13:51 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.21.0001152008310.386-100000@localhost.localdomain |
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On 2000-01-14, Rick Delaney mentioned:
> You make some good points, but where is this recommended in the docs? I'd like
> to see more of "serial vs oid" if there is something.
Although I don't represent any official opinion, the tendency among the
developers would seem to be not using oids for unique values. The serial
type is guaranteed to be supported for this but oids just happen to work.
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