On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 07:39:16PM +0100, Bo Lorentsen wrote:
> But, does this mean that the oid sollution I have decriped (and
> implimentet) have some unknown problems, or will oid's become obsolete
> in the near future ?
It means using OIDs as you described has very well known problems and
they will break on you eventually. You can mitigate the damage by
creating a UNIQUE index on the oid column but you'd better be sure your
application can handle the side-effects.
OIDs won't become obsolete, but they'll probably no longer be enabled
by default at some stage.
Hope this helps,
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