[PERFORM] History of oids in postgres?

catalog in the oid-datatype doc page, but not regarding their history as 'user-space' row ids. Thanks, James ---- James Robinson Socialserve.com ---(end of broadcast)--- TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ?

[PERFORM] Attempt at work around of int4 query won't touch int8 index ...

Hello, I'm trying a work-around on the "index on int8 column gets ignored by planner when queried by literal numbers lacking the explicit '::int8'" issue, and had hoped that perhaps I could create a functional index on the result of casting the pk field to int4, and mabye with a little lu