| From: | Dennis Bjorklund <db(at)zigo(dot)dhs(dot)org> |
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| To: | Mike Nolan <nolan(at)gw(dot)tssi(dot)com> |
| Cc: | olly(at)lfix(dot)co(dot)uk, <leen(at)wirehub(dot)nl>, <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: OID's |
| Date: | 2004-10-23 18:05:55 |
| Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.44.0410232001480.2015-100000@zigo.dhs.org |
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On Sat, 23 Oct 2004, Mike Nolan wrote:
> I personally believe that there is value in a database-generated unique
> value like Oracle's ROWID. (Part of what I like about it is that since
> it is a system column it simplifies some application issues, since the
> app never has to worry about that column unless it chooses to.)
If an application needs a column called oid in each table it could very
well just define the tables like that. You could also make a script that
checks all tables and make sure there is a oid if you want to.
--
/Dennis Björklund
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