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From Neil Conway
Subject Re: default to WITHOUT OIDS?
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In response to Re: default to WITHOUT OIDS?  (Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Responses Re: default to WITHOUT OIDS?  (Daniel Kalchev <daniel@digsys.bg>)
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On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 21:27, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> So what actually is the point of OIDs then?

My understanding is that they're used to uniquely identify entries in
system catalogs. If there's a good reason to make use of OIDs on user
tables, I can't see it...

Cheers,

Neil
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