Re: Dropping OID column

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dropping OID column
Date: 2003-01-16 21:58:32
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.44.0301162257250.789-100000@localhost.localdomain
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Tom Lane writes:

> If we ever got around to supporting the inverse function (add oids),
> I do not think we'd want to spell it like "ADD COLUMN oid" --- that
> would interfere with making a plain user column named "oid", which was
> one of the reasons why people wanted to be able to drop OIDs in the
> first place.

Is there really a reason why OIDs can't be a pure user-space column?

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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net

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