| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> |
| Cc: | Brent Verner <brent(at)rcfile(dot)org>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: ALTER TABLE RENAME fix |
| Date: | 2001-11-13 01:13:42 |
| Message-ID: | 200111130113.fAD1Dg719222@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> What OIDs could we use to point columns ?
>
> Is it really a good idea to use IDs or numbers in the first place ?
> We know now reference by IDs aren't necessarily good, don't we ?
> It's not preferable to optimize only *rename*. IMHO this should be
> considered as a part of total object-dependency mechanism.
Sorry, I should have said attribute numbers, not oid, since _Tom_
removed OID's from pg_attribute. :-)
Good question. Several people thought attno was the way to go and it
seemed more natural because almost everything else goes by attno and not
name.
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