Re: oid's in views.

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 08:07:50 -0700, "Josh Berkus" <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
> Aasmund,
> 
> 
> I believe the *official* reccommendation now is that you leave the OIDs
> to the system, and create your own SERIAL values for row identification.
> There are *lots* of problems with using OIDs as an index, and you've
> just found one more!
> 
> -Josh
I don't use them in indexes foreign keys etc., however they are very usefull when your application tries to edit/update
individualrows, as the oid is like a universal primary key.
 
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