There are certainly ways to handle this. But no one has seriously proposed getting rid of OIDs and presented a plan for fixing all the other holes that move would leave.
Right; I certainly have no intention of trying to remove OIDs any time soon. However, I _will_ be proposing that we set default_with_oids to false by default in 8.1, per previous discussion on pgsql-hackers. Among other things, this will mean that CREATE TABLE will not include OIDs by default: if you want OIDs on a particular table, you can either specify WITH OIDS explicitly or change the default_with_oids configuration parameter.
-Neil
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