Re: oid - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Stephan Szabo
Subject Re: oid
Date
Msg-id Pine.BSF.4.21.0104190829050.86771-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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In response to oid  (Toomas Gavrilin <toomas@aetec.ee>)
List pgsql-general
On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Toomas Gavrilin wrote:

> Sorry if my question sounds stupid, but ...
> Is there any way to get rid of postgres automatic generation of
> system attribute column 'oid'? The problem is, that we've used for years
> in our system tables attribute called oid (could be described as
> varbit(16)), since there hasn't been any problems with other database
> platforms.

I don't believe so.  There's been some talk about making oid optional
on tables in the future (although that might not free up the name).



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