Re: Using CTID system column as a "temporary" primary key

From: Christophe Pettus <xof(at)thebuild(dot)com>
To: Sebastien Flaesch <sebastien(dot)flaesch(at)4js(dot)com>
Cc: Adrian Klaver <adrian(dot)klaver(at)aklaver(dot)com>, Kirk Wolak <wolakk(at)gmail(dot)com>, Geoff Winkless <pgsqladmin(at)geoff(dot)dj>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Using CTID system column as a "temporary" primary key
Date: 2023-03-29 19:18:30
Message-ID: E7B36E22-D882-44E6-8995-3B50908333F6@thebuild.com
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> On Mar 29, 2023, at 12:11, Sebastien Flaesch <sebastien(dot)flaesch(at)4js(dot)com> wrote:
> But to make PostgreSQL more Informix-compatible, zero should have been considered as well.

There is an infinite family of strange features that various databases have (DUAL from Oracle, anyone?); PostgreSQL will rapidly become unusable if it tried to adopt them all. This one in particular seems particularly hacky and misguided (as well as non-standard-compliant).

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