[PERFORM] History of oids in postgres?

2004-05-05 Thread James Robinson
Bruno et al, Any self-repsecting lurker would know that oids as row identifiers are depreciated in postgres. Can anyone provide a brief history regarding the reasoning behind using them as row identifiers in the first place? I see a discussion of their use as various primary keys in he system

Re: [PERFORM] History of oids in postgres?

2004-05-05 Thread Bruce Momjian
James Robinson wrote: Bruno et al, Any self-repsecting lurker would know that oids as row identifiers are depreciated in postgres. Can anyone provide a brief history regarding the reasoning behind using them as row identifiers in the first place? I see a discussion of their use as