Re: deprecating the use of OIDs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From greg@turnstep.com
Subject Re: deprecating the use of OIDs
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In response to deprecating the use of OIDs  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
Responses Re: deprecating the use of OIDs  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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> I think most people on this list will agree that having OIDs on user
> tables is a Bad Thing. For some previous discussion of why, see:
> ...
> Objections, comments, etc. are welcome.

The GUC route sounds good. I'd like to see ctid handling beefed up at the 
same time. For example, some operators such as != would be nice and might 
ease the pain a little for people used to using oids as their "tuple id" :)

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Greg Sabino Mullane greg@turnstep.com
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