Re: Restore roles with same oid

From: Jeff Amiel <jamiel(at)istreamimaging(dot)com>
To: Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>
Cc: Thom Brown <thombrown(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Restore roles with same oid
Date: 2010-06-08 15:42:39
Message-ID: C833CF1F.4B3DD%jamiel@istreamimaging.com
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On 6/8/10 10:39 AM, "Stephen Frost" <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:

> I'm afriad you're not going to have a choice.. I would recommend
> creating a mapping from the old IDs to the new ones as part of this
> upgrade, to keep the historical information. Guess it's not nice to
> point this out- but you really shouldn't have ever used OIDs for
> something external to PG (or even internally, really). :)

To be honest...this was done early in our postgresql careers (back in the
7.X days). We knew so little. :)

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