Re: OID Question

Many thanks to all who have responded. I hope to be as helpful to the list
someday as each of you have been. Thanks...

On Thursday 11 November 2004 10:04 am, Terry Lee Tucker saith:
> Greetings,
>
> Here is a simple question:
>
> Is it ok to put a unique index on the oid for my tables? We are in the
> process of moving from Progress Software to PostgreSQL. In the Progress
> world, you can always uniquely, and quickly find a record by using their
> version of oid, which is recid. I remember reading somewhere that the oid
> could be duplicated across the cluster, but would not be duplicated in a
> single table. Maybe I dreamed it. What is the recommendation regarding this
> and why?
>
> Version:
> PostgreSQL 7.4.6 on i686-redhat-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc (GCC) 3.2.3
> 20030502 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.3-42)
>
> Thanks for your input...
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