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From: "Andrew K. Yu" <andrew@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
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Subject: Re:  Access via OID
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> I think no, but e.g. for Oracle I know that having a rowid
> lets you access the tuple VERY fast, because file,block,... 
> are encoded in the rowid, so Oracle does not have to search.
	
> Is there a similar mechanism for Postgres?
	
The oid in postgres has no encoding at all.

-andrew

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