Re: find column OID types with information schema?

ok, got it.

thanks for the clarification and the hand holding.

-Whit


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Whit Armstrong <armstrong.whit@gmail.com> writes:
>> Am I misinterpreting this documentation?  Are there cases in which the
>> OID's of two tables will collide?  I don't see any uniqueness
>> constraints on the pg_class table.
>
> You didn't look too hard:
>
> regression=# \d pg_class
> ...
> Indexes:
>    "pg_class_oid_index" UNIQUE, btree (oid)
>    "pg_class_relname_nsp_index" UNIQUE, btree (relname, relnamespace)
>
> All system catalogs that have OIDs at all effectively treat them as a
> primary key.  If they weren't unique identifiers they wouldn't be good
> for much ...
>
> What the documentation is trying to point out is that the uniqueness
> guarantees don't extend across tables.  So for example a table and a
> datatype could by coincidence have the same OID, since they live in
> different system catalogs.
>
>                        regards, tom lane
>