* Jeff Amiel (jamiel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On 6/8/10 10:39 AM, "Stephen Frost" <sfrost@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I'm afriad you're not going to have a choice.. I would recommend > > creating a mapping from the old IDs to the new ones as part of this > > upgrade, to keep the historical information. Guess it's not nice to > > point this out- but you really shouldn't have ever used OIDs for > > something external to PG (or even internally, really). :) > > To be honest...this was done early in our postgresql careers (back in the > 7.X days). We knew so little. :) Then you've been through this before.. Perhaps you should go check out what you did then. Back before 8.1, we didn't use OIDs for users/groups. :) Changing to OIDs was part of the work that I did to add role support. Thanks, Stephen
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