Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Don Baccus
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns
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Msg-id 3.0.1.32.20000124151744.01081650@mail.pacifier.com
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns  (Hannu Krosing <hannu@tm.ee>)
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At 01:02 AM 1/25/00 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:

>> Regarding this last, Oracle has an equivalent - rowid.   In the web
>> toolkit I'm helping port, it's used somewhat often, and having oid
>> available has been a convenience.
>
>My impression was thet Oracles ROWID is more like our TID - i.e. not a very 
>stable thing. I may be wrong of course, as last time I used oracle seriously 
>was more than 3 years ago.

Hmmm...maybe so.  I'm not sure, either...porting existing Oracle code
to PostgreSQL by no means makes me an Oracle expert.



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