Re: OID Usage - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Bo Lorentsen
Subject Re: OID Usage
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Msg-id 41E84F3E.70409@netgroup.dk
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In response to Re: OID Usage  (Michael Fuhr <mike@fuhr.org>)
List pgsql-general
Michael Fuhr wrote:

>The PostgreSQL documentation discourages the use of OIDs for primary
>keys.  For example, the "Object Identifier Types" section in the
>"Data Types" chapter says:
>
>
...

Thanks for taking you the time to snip this together, I think I will try
to find a way to find the propper primary key (using pg_* tables), and
if this uses the "nextval", I may be able to retrive the currently
inserted row by using currval.

>The 8.0 Release Notes say the following under "Deprecated Features":
>
>
Why have this not happend before ? The "PGoidValue need to be depricated
too. And why is it not substitutet with something else ?

/BL

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