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Subject: Re: Simple oid question
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In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 21 Feb 92 09:37:10 PST."
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Date: Tue, 25 Feb 92 10:54:41 PST

you write:

> 	How are oid's assigned?  What I'm wondering, do oid's for a
> 	given record/object uniquely identify the object across just
> 	the table that it resides in, or is the oid unique across all
> 	tables in the database?

Oid's are unique across the entire database.

> Question about indices:
> 
> 	I'm running version 3.0 currently and according to the docs only
> 	one key is allowed for a given index.  Is this restriction
> 	lifted in the upcoming 4.0 release?

No, sorry.


Jeff Meredith
mer@postgres.berkeley.edu