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Michael Fuhr wrote:

The PostgreSQL documentation discourages the use of OIDs for primary
keys. For example, the "Object Identifier Types" section in the
"Data Types" chapter says:


...

Thanks for taking you the time to snip this together, I think I will try to find a way to find the propper primary key (using pg_* tables), and if this uses the "nextval", I may be able to retrive the currently inserted row by using currval.

The 8.0 Release Notes say the following under "Deprecated Features":


Why have this not happend before ? The "PGoidValue need to be depricated too. And why is it not substitutet with something else ?

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