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Firstly, please don't send email in only HTML, it tends to get them
marked as spam.

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Anyway, as to your question:

> Im planning on using OID for referencing in certain part of the
> system i am building as in this case using normal pk -> fk would
> be inefficient as i have to have once table reference multi tables,
> but i have concerns that if a Database is exported and reconstructed
> the OID's will change making referencing impossible.<br>

There is no use of OIDs that cannot be better served by sequences. I
presume the issue is that in your multiple tables you may have the same
PK appear. Well, there is no reason why a sequence should be tied to a
single table. For example:

CREATE SEQUENCE my_global_counter;

CREATE table_1 ( id int4 default nextval('my_global_counter') primary key, ...
CREATE table_2 ( id int4 default nextval('my_global_counter') primary key, ...
CREATE table_3 ( id int4 default nextval('my_global_counter') primary key, ...

Is this what you're looking for?
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