table oids and comments

Hello:

I think I'm a little confused about the something in the documentation:

- I think table oids have been deprecated
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/runtime-config-compatible.html)
- It looks like the only way to retrieve the comments associated with a
table is to use the function obj_descritption(object_oid, catalog_name).
(http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.2/interactive/functions-info.html#FUNCTIONS-INFO-COMMENT-TABLE)


Is this a different oid?

Thanks for the help!
Mija