Jasbinder Singh Bali wrote:
Hi, What would be the benefit of creating tables with OIDs as against one's not with OIDs Giving a unique identifier to each row inserted has some extra efficiency factor involved or what.
OIDs are used by the various system tables. Historically, all user tables had them too.There's no reason to use them in a new system - they offer no advantages over an ordinary integer primary-key.
-- Richard Huxton Archonet Ltd
