ORDBMS<->OID (Re: [HACKERS] Happy column dropping)

On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, Chris Bitmead wrote:

> Hannu Krosing wrote:
>
> > I'm sure many people would appreciate it even without "preserving oid-s"
> > as OID's are declared deprecated for (AFAIK) >2 years,
>
> OIDs should not be deprecated (never heard that one before). They will
> become more important if and when postgres moves more toward being an
> odbms. For reasons see any book on object theory and identity.

You are the second person that mentioned the ODBMS<->OID tie in ... when
you say ODBMS, is that the same as ORDBMS, or we talking a different
issue?

Want to elaborate? Like, since we already have the 'core', I believe,
what does it take to continue that trend?

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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