[Mapserver-users] RE: [postgis-users] RE: gone are my queryresults

[Paul Ramsey]

Charlton Purvis wrote:

> Let's hear it for the Canadians!!! Talk about premature graying.
> That was an unpleasant couple of days, but it was solved by binding
> the UNIQUE to a home-grown column, and now everything is golden.

No problem Charlton. You are one of the few PostGIS users to have a busy 
enough database to wrap the oids over the signed integer maximum. Note 
that this is not a number-of-records limitation, but a number of events 
limitation, as the oid increments with inserts, updates, all sorts of 
things. Using a real unique key is preferred anyways -- more visibility 
and control. Also the PgSQL developers threaten to deprecate oid with 
each release.

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