Barry Lind wrote:
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> Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >>Using tableoid instead of tablename avoids renaming problems, but makes
> >>the names horribly opaque IMNSHO.
> >
> >
> > Agreed. I think using the OIDs would be a horrible choice.
> >
>
> As a point of reference Oracle uses a naming convention of 'Cnnnn' where
> nnnn is a sequence generated unique value. So in Oracle system
> generated names are very opaque. I never saw this as a problem, since
> if you wanted a non-opaque name you could always assign one yourself.
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