Re: Utility of OIDs in postgres

Jasbinder Singh Bali wrote:
> Hi,
>
> What would be the benefit of creating tables with OIDs as against one's not
> with OIDs
> Giving a unique identifier to each row inserted has some extra efficiency
> factor involved or what.

OIDs are used by the various system tables.
Historically, all user tables had them too.
There's no reason to use them in a new system - they offer no advantages
over an ordinary integer primary-key.

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