Re: About OIDs - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Andrew Sullivan
Subject Re: About OIDs
Date
Msg-id 20030401170728.GD8585@mail
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In response to Re: About OIDs  (Jonathan Bartlett <johnnyb@eskimo.com>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 01:14:30PM -0800, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
> update the related fields with the new OID for the merged record.  This
> works even if you don't know what tables and columns may be referencing
> your table beforehand.

Really?  Since there's no guarantee that OIDs are unique across the
system, that sounds like a terrible recipe for breakage to me.

A

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