Re: OIDs (Or: another RTFM question?) - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Adrian 'Dagurashibanipal' von Bidder
Subject Re: OIDs (Or: another RTFM question?)
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Msg-id 1026890064.19999.43.camel@atlas
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In response to Re: OIDs (Or: another RTFM question?)  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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On Tue, 2002-07-16 at 18:12, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Yes, WITHOUT OIDs just prevents the oid counter from incrementing as
> quickly and perhaps rolling over.  In 7.3 I think WITHOUT OID may save
> storage so I am going to avoid documenting it at this point.

Thanks for the answers, folks (I added a docnote pointing to this thread
so others may not need to ask the same question again).

Remaining question: if OIDs are optional for normal tables, why are they
created per default? Mandated by SQL? Backward compatibility?

cheers
-- vbi

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