Excerpts from Robert Haas's message of mar jul 06 10:08:21 -0400 2010:
> Treating OID as a user-defined column seems reasonable, and probably
> not even that messy if we put some appropriate macros in place. I'm
> guessing the messy part would be finding all the places that expect to
> be consulting a real pg_attribute row and supplying them with a
> faked-up one in its place.
Agreed.
I'm intending to work on logical column identifiers for 9.1. Perhaps I
could try to have a look at this, too, while at it.