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From: Andrew K. Yu <andrew@postgres.Berkeley.EDU>
To: joerg.plewe@mpi-dortmund.mpg.de
Cc: postgres@postgres.Berkeley.EDU
Subject: Re:  Access via OID
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 1994 11:22:33 -0700
Message-ID: <199406291822.LAA18721@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU> (raw)

	
> 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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