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Re: Big 7.1 open items

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

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From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue@tpf.co.jp>
Cc: "Ross J. Reedstrom" <reedstrm@rice.edu>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-06-15T21:48:59Z
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> I've also mentioned many times neither relname nor oid is sufficient
> for the uniqueness. In addiiton neither relname nor oid would be
> necessary for the uniqueness.
> IMHO,it's bad to rely on the item which is neither necessary nor
> sufficient.
> I proposed relname+unique_id naming once. The unique_id is
> independent from oid. The relname is only for convinience for
> DBA and so we don't have to change it due to RENAME.
> Db's consistency is much more important than dba's satis-
> faction.
> 
> Comments ?

I am happy not to rename the file on 'RENAME', but seems no one likes
that.


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