Tom Lane wrote:
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>>Using tableoid instead of tablename avoids renaming problems, but makes
>>the names horribly opaque IMNSHO.
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> Agreed. I think using the OIDs would be a horrible choice.
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As a point of reference Oracle uses a naming convention of 'Cnnnn' where
nnnn is a sequence generated unique value. So in Oracle system
generated names are very opaque. I never saw this as a problem, since
if you wanted a non-opaque name you could always assign one yourself.
--Barry
