On 21/11/2018 09:20, Christoph Berg wrote:
> Re: Andres Freund 2018-11-21 <E1gPG3j-0003cy-03@gemulon.postgresql.org>
>> The biggest user of WITH OID columns was postgres' catalog. This
>> commit changes all 'magic' oid columns to be columns that are normally
>> declared and stored.
>
> postgres=# \d+ pg_class
> [...]
> Indexe:
> "pg_class_oid_index" UNIQUE, btree (oid)
>
> Now that oid is a proper column, shouldn't that be a PRIMARY KEY?
> (Just for the looks.)
This is an independent consideration. There was nothing before that
prevented an index on an oid column from being a primary key that isn't
still there.
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