Re: Oids vs Serial fields (was Re: [GENERAL] searching oid's)

2000-01-16 Thread Peter Eisentraut
On 2000-01-14, Rick Delaney mentioned: > You make some good points, but where is this recommended in the docs? I'd like > to see more of "serial vs oid" if there is something. Although I don't represent any official opinion, the tendency among the developers would seem to be not using oids fo

Re: Oids vs Serial fields (was Re: [GENERAL] searching oid's)

2000-01-14 Thread Bruce Momjian
> Adriaan Joubert wrote: > > > > Yes oids get dumped with the -o flag. That is why I said automatically. Fact > > remains that you cannot manipulate oids. Should you ever want to copy a table into > > an exisiting system you would have to do a new initdb to make sure that the oids > > in your tab