Re: OID's

On 11/16/2004 4:52 AM, Michael Glaesemann wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2004, at 6:42 PM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
>
>> Am Dienstag, 16. November 2004 10:01 schrieb Joolz:
>>> Michael Glaesemann zei:
>>>> OIDS are a system level implementation. They are no longer required
>>>> (you can make tables without OIDS) and they may go away someday.
>>>
>>> Out of curiosiry: how will we handle blobs once the OID's are gone?
>>
>> They won't go away.  This is one reason.
>
> Peter,
>
> You sound pretty certain. I can imagine there might be a way to handle
> BLOBs without OIDs. I'm not saying that I know what it is, but I
> recognize the possibility.

A sequence and converting the blob identifier to int8 would be one ...


Jan

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