On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:44:06PM -0800, Dann Corbit wrote:
> They are very handy for our ODBC driver. It ensures that there is
> always some sort of unique identifier for any table, even if the
> designer did not create a primary key. (Sure, that's a naughty no-no,
> but it is astonishing how often it happens). At any rate, some complex
> joins can be sped up enormously by the existence of Odes.
OIDs are not necessarily unique. How do you handle that?
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Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> "the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or
> religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.
> Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
> - Samuel P. Huntington
