Re: Dropping OID column - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Peter Eisentraut
Subject Re: Dropping OID column
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.44.0301162257250.789-100000@localhost.localdomain
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In response to Re: Dropping OID column  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane writes:

> If we ever got around to supporting the inverse function (add oids),
> I do not think we'd want to spell it like "ADD COLUMN oid" --- that
> would interfere with making a plain user column named "oid", which was
> one of the reasons why people wanted to be able to drop OIDs in the
> first place.

Is there really a reason why OIDs can't be a pure user-space column?

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Peter Eisentraut   peter_e@gmx.net



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