Please remember:
- OIDs are NOT unique
- CTIDs are unique but not constant
- SERIALs are unique and forever
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 10:39:43AM -0600, James Thompson wrote:
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> I think oid is what you want.
>
> select oid,* from table;
>
> Take Care,
> James
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> On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Barbara Lindsey wrote:
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> > Is there something in Postgres that corresponds to the rowid
> > pseudocolumn in Oracle, which represents the unique address of the row
> > of data in the table? If so, how would you access that in a query?
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