Re: Antw: many-many mapping between unique tables

Hi,

Thank you very much. Now I know to use serial and not oid. I hope I got
the correct message.

Thanks,
Indraneel

On Mon, 16 Oct 2000, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Please reference two things:
>
> 1. Look in the list archives for the last 4 weeks and you will read a
> long discussion on the risks/limitations of using an OID as the primary
> key on very large tables. (Subject: Object-Relational Database Design).
>
> 2. For how to use OIDs, please look in Bruce Momjian's excellent PGSQL
> book-in-progress, available on the Postgresql.org website. (Chapter 7, I
> believe).
>

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