Re: Using oids

The elimination is in concert with the dying of popularity in 'Object
Oriented Databases', right?

Shridhar Daithankar wrote:

>On 3 Sep 2003 at 10:27, Malcolm Warren wrote:
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>>To sum up: The Debian migration gzip file declares that oids are not
>>guaranteed to be unique, issues dire warnings about using them as keys and
>>worst of all states that they may be phased out in the future.
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>>The book states that they are unique, tells you how to use them, actually
>>gives an example of using them as primary and foreign keys (which
>>fortunately I decided was not very wise) and certainly doesn't say anything
>>about phasing them out in the future.
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>Yes. It is correct. As of 7.3.x and onwards oids are optional at table creation
>times. They default to be available for new objects but that is for backwards
>compatibility I believe. In future, they would default to be not available for
>a particular object(hopefully). Right now you need to explicitly specify no
>oids while creating tables etc.
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>About oids not being unique, oids can assume 4 billion different values. If you
>have more than those many rows in a table, oids will wrap around and will no
>longer be unique in that object.
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>About oids being eliminated, I am sure it would happen some time in the future,
>looking at the development on this issue. Core team could elaborate more on
>this.
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>Correct me if I am wrong.
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>HTH
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>Bye
> Shridhar
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