Re: oid's in views.

From: "Josh Berkus" <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com>
To: "Aasmund Midttun Godal" <postgresql(at)envisity(dot)com>, pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: oid's in views.
Date: 2001-10-19 15:07:50
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Aasmund,

> The oid column will always be blank. The oid column can never be used
> for anything usefull.

I believe the *official* reccommendation now is that you leave the OIDs
to the system, and create your own SERIAL values for row identification.
There are *lots* of problems with using OIDs as an index, and you've
just found one more!

-Josh

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