> Updating OIDs sounds like a *very* scary thing to do. My motivation for
> heap_create_oid is very specific - I want to be able to do a valid database
> backup/restore, and need to handle the current (bad) BLOB implementation. I
> would sincerely hope that (a) heap_create_oid would be marked in some way
> as 'internal use only', and (b) go away in 7.2 or 7.3 when TOASTED BLOBs
> come along...

If you accidentally delete a row with a specific oid, how do you re-add
the row?

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