Re: oid and oidvector

Camila Rocha wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm from Brazil, and sorry about my english...
> I'm having problems with the oid field, the field present in all tables. I 
> wanted to use it as a foreing key betwwen too tables, but i couldn't! is it 
> possible??

No, you can't use oid as a foreign key.  You must use a PRIMARY column.

> what about the data type oidvector?? i didn't find any documentation about 
> it, i wanted to use it to keep a lot of oids of other objects... like an 
> array of foreign keys, you know?

oidvector is for internal db use.  It is an array of 16 oid's.

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