Re: oid

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Toomas Gavrilin <toomas(at)aetec(dot)ee>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: oid
Date: 2001-04-19 15:30:59
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0104190829050.86771-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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On Thu, 19 Apr 2001, Toomas Gavrilin wrote:

> Sorry if my question sounds stupid, but ...
> Is there any way to get rid of postgres automatic generation of
> system attribute column 'oid'? The problem is, that we've used for years
> in our system tables attribute called oid (could be described as
> varbit(16)), since there hasn't been any problems with other database
> platforms.

I don't believe so. There's been some talk about making oid optional
on tables in the future (although that might not free up the name).

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