Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns

From: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
To: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, Adriaan Joubert <a(dot)joubert(at)albourne(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns
Date: 2000-01-24 23:17:44
Message-ID: 3.0.1.32.20000124151744.01081650@mail.pacifier.com
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At 01:02 AM 1/25/00 +0200, Hannu Krosing wrote:

>> Regarding this last, Oracle has an equivalent - rowid. In the web
>> toolkit I'm helping port, it's used somewhat often, and having oid
>> available has been a convenience.
>
>My impression was thet Oracles ROWID is more like our TID - i.e. not a very
>stable thing. I may be wrong of course, as last time I used oracle seriously
>was more than 3 years ago.

Hmmm...maybe so. I'm not sure, either...porting existing Oracle code
to PostgreSQL by no means makes me an Oracle expert.

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