Re: comments on casts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: comments on casts
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Msg-id 3F8B9C56.5050000@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: comments on casts  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> regression=# select oid from pg_cast;
>   oid
> -------
>  16420
>  16421
>  16422
>  16423
>  16424
>  ... etc ...
> 
> It would be a very serious design error if pg_cast didn't have OIDs,
> because then pg_cast entries couldn't have dependency entries in
> pg_depend.

OK.  Weird.  I could have _sworn_ I tried that and I didn't get an OID 
column.  Oh well - makes things a lot easier.

Also, with the pg_largeobject table, there seems to be no 'owner' 
concept on lobs at all.  So is there no problem with any random gumby 
commenting on anyone else's large object?

Chris




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