[postgis-users] oid field

[Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha]

Aaron,

When you tell new versions you mean 8.1 ?

Another question, why this field does not appears in a "\d" command ?
and how to generate this field if my application does not generated it ?



Regards


Aaron Koning escreveu:
> 'oid' is a database generated field containing unique values (one for 
> each row). In previous versions of PostgreSQL it was created by 
> default, however in newer versions it is not generated by default. The 
> shp2pgsql loader creates a 'gid' field that also contains unique 
> values, therefore the need for oid is moot ( i.e. use gid instead of oid).
>
> Aaron
>
> On 6/19/06, *Ezequias Rodrigues da Rocha* <ezequias at recife.pe.gov.br 
> <mailto:ezequias at recife.pe.gov.br>> wrote:
>
>     Could someone tell me what oid field does ?
>
>     I am using JUMP to load data into PostGIS and it is not generating
>     this
>     king of column.
>
>     I just think it is a problem is becouse didn't load the
>     spatial_ref_sys
>     table yet.
>
>
>     Sincerely
>     Ezequias
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