FAQ 4.15 "What is an OID? What is a TID?" is misleading about the uniqueness of OIDs. It does mention the possibility of overflow (while mentioning that nobody has ever reported it), but it doesn't discourage their use as primary keys like the documentation does in, for example, the following sections:
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/datatype-oid.html http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/static/ddl-system-columns.html -- Michael Fuhr http://www.fuhr.org/~mfuhr/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
