Status of OIDs was: Re: select first occurrence of a table

Speaking of OIDs... I noticed that the talk is that these are being deprecated which, from my non 
relationally purist/pro-object perspective, kinda disappointed me although I can guess at some 
possible reasons. Is there some docs or a thread that someone can point me to that covers this 
issue as I expect its been hashed over in depth already. I'd appreciate any information about the 
justification and expected impact of this direction that Postgres is taking.

	many thanx,

		Ben Scherrey

5/2/2003 1:33:08 PM, Erik Ronström  wrote:
>If the table has OIDs (which is the default), you can use the OID as a
>unique identifier for a row. But then you'll have to perform two
>queries:
>
>SELECT oid FROM table WHERE ... LIMIT 1;
>
>UPDATE table SET ... WHERE oid = ...;
>
>Erik