David Johnston wrote > Or feel free to peruse the release notes for 9.2, this behavior change > should be documented if intentional. Reading said notes it appears that the "returns NULL" behavior compensates for a concurrent DROP of an existing/known OID. Since your issue is that the object was never physically present, and thus did not have an OID, so the attempt to obtain an OID failed and resulted in an error. David J. -- View this message in context: http://postgresql.1045698.n5.nabble.com/Seems-like-bug-in-9-1-3-need-to-confirm-tp5784296p5784304.html Sent from the PostgreSQL - general mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general