On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:02, Dennis Björklund wrote:
> Yes, never use the oid at all is my suggestion.
Hmm, will oid's not change so that they are unique regardless, or will
oid be removed.
> If you need a unique id for a row then add a serial column that will
> provide that, and use currval('the_sequence') to get the last inserted
> value in that column for a session.
This is just not a general solution to this problem, and will need
awareness of the id type in the application layer.
/BL
