Re: [HACKERS] OID Implicit limit

2000-12-20 Thread Steve Howe
""Christopher Kings-Lynne"" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > > > Reading the documentation, I see that OIDs are unique through > the > > > whole database. > > > But since OIDs are int4, does that limit the number of rows I > can >

Re: [HACKERS] OID Implicit limit

2000-12-19 Thread Bruce Momjian
We have an FAQ item on this now under OID's. [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] > > > Reading the documentation, I see that OIDs are unique through > the > > > whole database. > > > But since OIDs are int4, does that limit the number of rows I > can > > > have in a

RE: [HACKERS] OID Implicit limit

2000-12-19 Thread Christopher Kings-Lynne
> > Reading the documentation, I see that OIDs are unique through the > > whole database. > > But since OIDs are int4, does that limit the number of rows I can > > have in a database to 2^32 = 4 billion ? > > Yep. > > Thanks for the answer - although that concerns me a bit. > Maybe