Re: OID Usage

Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:

>It means using OIDs as you described has very well known problems and
>they will break on you eventually. You can mitigate the damage by
>creating a UNIQUE index on the oid column but you'd better be sure your
>application can handle the side-effects.
>
>
Ok, Tom told me about the same :-(  But why are oid's still in PG, that
are they good for ? Will there be a real unique row id, like there is in
Oracle, or will this be keept as an internal value only ?

>OIDs won't become obsolete, but they'll probably no longer be enabled
>by default at some stage.
>
>
Is this because some old application's using oid's in somewhat small
dataset ?

>Hope this helps,
>
>
It did thanks.

/BL