Re: OID Usage

It's not very hard to do. I just got rid them. It took me about a day. Our
application is an X-Windows front end written is C. I wrote a function to
return the next value of the serial key for any table. Here is the select
statement buitl with sprintf:
"SELECT relname FROM pg_class WHERE relkind = \'S\' AND
relname = \'%s_recid_seq\':

All our sequences are called "recid" and since the naming convention is
<table_name>_recid_seq, it's easy to get the name of the right sequence. You
might as well go ahead and do it. You'll feel better after you do ;o)

On Friday 14 January 2005 06:13 pm, Bo Lorentsen saith:
> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> >Yeah, though things get hairy that way because you have to peek at
> >pg_attribute to match the objsubid in pg_depend; and self-join pg_class
> >to get to the index itself. Not sure if it all can be done in a single
> >query.
>
> Sounds like my task, to make an oid free insert/select, is going to be
> very interesting :-)
>
> /BL
>
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