Re: sequences vs oids as primary keys

craigp wrote:

>1) does it make sense (and would it be possible) to make a rule which would,
>say, somehow write into the oid field of a tuple to be returned by lastoid? i'm
>assuming here that the database would not have oid's enabled.
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We do this in a trigger.  We assign the NEXTVAL to a variable, write
that to the row, then raise its value as a notice.  Then we just
retrieve the notice.