Re: lifetime of the old CTID

Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>

From: Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2022-07-06T19:33:42Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On 7/6/22 01:18, Matthias Apitz wrote:
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> Ofc, each table has its own primary key(s), used for example for the
> SELECT ctid, * FROM d01buch WHERE ...
>
> As I said, we came to PostgreSQL from Sybase (and Oracle) and Sybase has
> for each table a so called SYB_IDENTITY_COLUMN which is static for the
> table and its value does not change.

The DBA who designed that should be flogged for pretending that 
SYB_IDENTITY_COLUMN is a primary key.

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