On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 01:16:29PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Alvaro Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > In the pg_stat_activity view, the usesysid is shown as having type Oid. > > However pg_shadow says it's an integer. Is there a reason? > > There's been disagreement for a long time over whether userids should be > OIDs or ints. If you want to introduce consistency then it's going to > take a lot more than a one-line patch. (First you'll need to convince > the partisans involved which answer is the right one.)
Oh, I see. I wasn't aware of this. I don't really know which answer is "the right one". I don't care a lot about this thing either, but I'll keep it into my list of amusements, and will probably even dig into the archives sometime. -- Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[a]dcc.uchile.cl>) Criptografía: Poderosa técnica algorítmica de codificación que es empleada en la creación de manuales de computadores. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? http://www.postgresql.org/users-lounge/docs/faq.html
