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From: Paul M. Aoki <aoki@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
To: Aaron Roydhouse <Aaron.Roydhouse@Comp.VUW.AC.NZ>
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re: Discovering the class from an object identifier
Date: Wed, 11 May 94 19:16:16 -0700
Message-ID: <199405120216.TAA03074@faerie.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <199405112259.KAA04148@downstage.comp.vuw.ac.nz>

Aaron Roydhouse <Aaron.Roydhouse@Comp.VUW.AC.NZ> writes:
> Given the oid of an instance, how can I discover the most specific
> class the instance belongs to? 
> Alternatively, how can I retrieve an instance identified by an oid,
> which knowing the classes it belongs to?
> I've obviously trying to avoid querying every class in hope.

the commercial derivative of postgres splits oids into a class
identifier and an instance identifier, but postgres itself just
assigned oids sequentially in a given database.
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