Re: Globally Unique IDs, was Re: [SQLObject] Re: SQLObject

[Bud P. B. <bu...@si...>]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 13:37:49 -0400
"Edmund Lian" <el...@in...> wrote:

> >> > Another thought in this context is that PostgreSQL already inserts an
> >> > object id column for every table.  But maybe it's not a good idea to
> >> > use since other dbms don't have equivalents...
> 
> This is a really bad idea. OIDs are not preserved across db dumps, and are
> optional in PG 7.3 and above, I think.
> 
> ...Edmund.

Edmund,  point taken.  I felt it was too implementation dependent
myself when I thought of it.

But what do you think of Globally Unique IDs?

--b