Rails - Feb 2006 - Rails with postgres-oids?

Hello!

Postgres supports oids which is a unique number for any row in a given 
database. There is the ''id'' already inside oids - wouldnt it
be nice and
handy to turn on some global environemt.rb or database.yaml magic-switch 
and rails uses the oids internally and transparently on the postgresql 
adapter, sparing people the need to create auto-increment-serial ids 
with postgres databases?

Regards
Philipp

row OIDs work best only for internals - pg_catalog tables, for example.
don''t use them as primary keys for your tables - it''s ugly and
is discouraged.
(and recent versions of PostgreSQL have WITHOUT OIDS as *default*
option for CREATE TABLE)

On 2/22/06, Philipp Ott <philipp.ott@avalon.at>
wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Postgres supports oids which is a unique number for any row in a given
> database. There is the ''id'' already inside oids - wouldnt
it be nice and
> handy to turn on some global environemt.rb or database.yaml magic-switch
> and rails uses the oids internally and transparently on the postgresql
> adapter, sparing people the need to create auto-increment-serial ids
> with postgres databases?
>
> Regards
> Philipp
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