On Wed, 2004-10-27 at 09:00 +0200, Thomas Hallgren wrote: > Using OID's is a good idea, but I think a canonical list of known > timezone to OID mappings must be maintained and shipped with the > PostgreSQL core. > > If OID's are generated at initdb time, there's a great risk that the > OID's will differ between databases using different versions of > PostgreSQL. That in turn will have some negative implications for data > exchange. > > Regards, > Thomas Hallgren >
I definitely agree with Thomas . The fact that OIDs are generated at initdb time really scares me since we have different versions of the database engine running; it would really be a nightmare if the OIDs were different from machine to machine ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 7: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
