Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> > BTW while reading the psql manpage I noticed this statement:
>
> > A popular application of this facility is to refer to the last
> > inserted OID in subsequent statements to build a foreign key
> > scenario.
>
> > (This refers to :foo interpolation.) Talking about popular application
> > of OIDs in FKs seems so 90's. Should we remove that phrase?
>
> Yeah, probably; it's been a very long time since that was considered
> a good way to do things. Can you think of some other example to replace
> that with?
I have removed the mention of OID usage with the attached patch.
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</para>
<para>
! A popular application of this facility is to refer to the last
! inserted <acronym>OID</acronym> in subsequent statements to build a
! foreign key scenario. Another possible use of this mechanism is to
copy the contents of a file into a table column. First load the file into a
variable and then proceed as above:
<programlisting>
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<para>
! One possible use of this mechanism is to
copy the contents of a file into a table column. First load the file into a
variable and then proceed as above:
<programlisting>
