Re: table oids and comments - Mailing list pgsql-novice

Mija Lee wrote:
> I think I'm a little confused about the something in the documentation:
>
> - I think table oids have been deprecated
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/runtime-config-compatible.html)
>
> - It looks like the only way to retrieve the comments associated with a
> table is to use the function obj_descritption(object_oid, catalog_name).
> (http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/functions-info.html#FUNCTIONS-INFO-COMMENT-TABLE)
>
> Is this a different oid?



17.12:    The use of OIDs in user tables is considered deprecated

9.19:    System Information Functions


System functions access system tables; they do not access user tables.