Manuel Sugawara <masm(at)fciencias(dot)unam(dot)mx> writes:
> I did the es translation of pg_dump and while looking at the code I
> found that in several places the char * representation of Oid's is
> used instead of the oid itself. Any one knows why is done this
> way?
AFAIR pg_dump invariably stores OIDs as strings rather than numbers.
This is arguably inefficient, but no one's felt like expending the
effort to change it.
regards, tom lane