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From Derek Clarkson
Subject OIDs - can they be used for accessing records ?
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Msg-id 200301291650.47888.dhc@bigpond.net.au
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Responses Re: OIDs - can they be used for accessing records ?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Hello everyone.
    I am currently designing a DB and was wondering whether the OIDs assigned to
each record could also be used as foreign keys links ? is this a good idea
instead of using sequences ? Pros ? Cons ?


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Derek Clarkson
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