Re: Does Postgres support bookmarks (tuples ids)?

On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 09:55 -0500, Vick Khera wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 12:57 AM, Dann Corbit <DCorbit@connx.com> wrote:
> > The ctid is not permanent.   An alternative is to create tables with OID
> > values.
>
> Creating OIDs gives you zero benefit over having a PK.  They would be
> roughly equivalent if you added a unique index on the OID column, but
> that is by no means automatic.

It is also a really bad idea considering the global nature of an OID.

JD

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