Re: ALTER TABLE .. < ADD | DROP > OIDS

From: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Pgsql Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE .. < ADD | DROP > OIDS
Date: 2002-12-06 21:24:00
Message-ID: 1039209840.2742.142.camel@jester
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> > That helps DROP OID. How about ADD OID?
>
> What about it? I think it'll work just like adding a column, except
> that OID will probably read as 0 not NULL if the row hasn't been updated
> yet. (You could probably make it read as NULL if you wanted though.)

Good point. I forgot new columns were empty by default.

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