Re: OID order = INSERT order?

From: elein <elein(at)norcov(dot)com>
To: "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OID order = INSERT order?
Date: 2002-09-23 20:59:49
Message-ID: 200209232059.g8NKxZI5299618@pimout2-ext.prodigy.net
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In 7.3b1, the oids of a row do not change on update
according to my experiment. I had thought they did.
Is this new with 7.3?

elein
elein(at)norcov(dot)com

On Monday 16 September 2002 08:43, scott.marlowe wrote:
> On 13 Sep 2002, Justin Hawkins wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I am converting a legacy (DBM file backend) app to SQL. The current
> > storage scheme utlizes ordered list values on objects. To emulate this
> > I'm just doing multiple INSERTs on a table.
> >
> > I need to make sure they will come back out in the same order, every
> > time though.
> >
> > When I fetch values back from the table, if I 'ORDER BY oid', will I
> > always get them back in the same order I put them in?
>
> If you update a row, it will then have a different OID since postgresql
> uses MVCC.
>
> do it the right way, make a sequence and attach it to the table.
>
>
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