Re: oid...any optimizations

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: "sathiya psql" <sathiya.psql@gmail.com>
Cc: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Date: 2008-03-06T07:06:50Z
Lists: pgsql-performance
On Thu, 6 Mar 2008 12:32:01 +0530
"sathiya psql" <sathiya.psql@gmail.com> wrote:

> i had a table with 50 lakh record...
> 
> it has a column called oid ( obviously all the tables will have
> this ), but while doing any operation it is getting slow because of
> the number of records...

Actually it isn't obvious as oids have been deprecated for years.

> 
> if i remove the oid column will i get any benefit, what are all the
> other default columns created without our knowledge..

What version of ancient PostgreSQL are you running exactly?

Joshua D. Drake


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