Re: deprecating the use of OIDs - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: deprecating the use of OIDs
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Msg-id 13390.1064879435@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: deprecating the use of OIDs  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
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Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:18, greg@turnstep.com wrote:
>> The GUC route sounds good. I'd like to see ctid handling beefed up at the 
>> same time. For example, some operators such as != would be nice and might 
>> ease the pain a little for people used to using oids as their "tuple id" :)

> Are we encouraging the use of ctids by applications?

I'd prefer to think not ... but they are a nice "out" in some situations.
I suppose we could at least document them a little better.
        regards, tom lane


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