Re: type OIDs

From: Michael Meskes <meskes(at)postgresql(dot)org>
To: PostgreSQL Hacker <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: type OIDs
Date: 2000-09-18 01:59:57
Message-ID: 20000917185957.B6381@feivel.credativ.de
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On Fri, Sep 15, 2000 at 10:23:01AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> They are fixed in any one version, and really are not very likely to
> change across versions either. But I suppose it could happen.

That's good enough for my usage I think.

> Exactly how "hard coded" do you mean? If you #include "catalog/pg_types.h"
> and use the OID #defines therein, you're not doing any worse than a lot
> of places in the backend. At worst you'd create a cross-major-version
> incompatibility for ecpg.

Sounds good. I will do that.

Michael
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