Re: oid size on 64 bit machine - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Neil Conway
Subject Re: oid size on 64 bit machine
Date
Msg-id 1100222369.21096.1.camel@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: oid size on 64 bit machine  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 14:34 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Geoffrey <esoteric@3times25.net> writes:
> > Do I get more oids on a 64 bit machine?
>
> No.

Nor will OIDs ever be 64 bit, I'd hazard to guess.

In any case using OIDs in applications is a bad idea -- you probably
should not be using them at all, let alone using more than 2^32 of them.

-Neil



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