Re: regarding oid(object id)

On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 12:31 PM, siva kiran balijepalli <
b(dot)sivakiran(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi
> i am novice postgr sql user.
>
> I have created a table named customer in my data base.
> also i have inserter some of the rows into my table.
> when i try to execute this command to select object id's (oid) i am getting
> following error.
>
> select oid from customer;
> error: column oid doesn't exist
>
> note: even though i have changed the
> default_with_oids = on in postgreconf file,i am not getting the oid's.
>
> my postgre sql version is 8.4
>
> but when i try to select oid's for already existed tables in pg_catalogue
> the output is coming
> for eg: select oid from pg_proc;
>
> please reply
>
> thanks & regards
> sivakiran.B
>

let me share this simple test case:
pg=# create table myt(a int)with oids;
CREATE TABLE
pg=# select * from myt;
a
---
(0 rows)

pg=# insert into myt values(1);
INSERT 16387 1

pg=# select a, oid from myt;
a | oid
---+-------
1 | 16387
(1 row)

Please read this section:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-createtable.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-createtable.html#SQL-CREATETABLE-STORAGE-PARAMETERS

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