On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:58:38AM +1200, Brent Wood wrote: > As oid is unique across all tables (in fact all database objects), but > serial is unique within a table, there are odd cases like this where > using an oid in each table ensures an automatic unique key in the view. > So oids can be useful.
As pointed out already, this isn't true. However, for the case you provide you can also use tableoid which uniquely identifies the table. Thus the combination of a serial primary and table oid is unique across a single DB. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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