Re: [HACKERS] Well, then you keep your darn columns

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Adriaan Joubert wrote:

> As a user let me just say that I have been waiting for all the
> 'ALTER TABLE..' commands for a long time (changing constraints would be great
> too!) and it has been mentioned many times that one should not use oids in
> application code. The way I do it at the moment is to copy the table, so I
> think all users are used to losing their oids when remocing a column from a
> table. So while it is certainly better to keep the oids, Peter's code is a
> big improvement on the current situation.

Except, as Chris Bitmead brought up, OIDs appear to be a key requirement
in ODBMSs ... so, if we want to go what I *think* is 'next generation',
OIDs have to be kept ...

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
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