I'm coming late to this discussion, but oids are virtually
interchangable with integers.
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Chris Bitmead
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John Thorhauer wrote:
>
> Nissim Karpenstein wrote:
> >
> > I'm replying to my own message because I found out the solution to the next
> > (and final) postgres problem. The problem stems from the fact that the
> > ResultSetMetaData (used by village) from pgsql identifies the OID field as
> > an int (which it is in the table, but it really refers to VARBINARY data)
>
> I was thinking about this and I am wondering if this is a safe way to
> handle this problem. I found a definition of the OID type at:
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faq-english.html#4.17
>
> It says:
> #################################
> Oids are PostgreSQL's answer to unique row ids. Every row that is
> created in PostgreSQL gets a unique oid. All oids generated during
> initdb are less than 16384 (from backend/access/transam.h). All
> user-created oids are equal or greater that this. By default, all these
> oids are unique not only within a table, or database, but unique within
> the entire PostgreSQL installation.
>
> PostgreSQL uses oids in its internal system tables to link rows between
> tables. These oids can be used to identify specific user rows and used
> in joins. It is recommended you use column type oid to store oid values.
> See the sql(l) manual page to see the other internal columns. You can
> create an index on the oid field for faster access.
> #################################
>
> If OIDs are used by Postgres internally as integers, couldnt it possibly
> cause unforseen problems if we change the type to VARBINARY?
>
> John Thorhauer
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