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This is a small fix in FAQ. It just clean up some old comments and

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Bruce Momjian
2004-06-04 04:09:40 +00:00
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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL
Last updated: Mon Mar 29 00:07:11 EST 2004
Last updated: Fri Jun 4 00:09:16 EDT 2004
Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
@ -965,11 +965,11 @@ BYTEA bytea variable-length byte array (null-byte safe)
all databases. If you want to change the OID to something else, or if
you want to make a copy of the table, with the original OIDs, there is
no reason you can't do it:
CREATE TABLE new_table(old_oid oid, mycol int);
SELECT old_oid, mycol INTO new FROM old;
COPY new TO '/tmp/pgtable';
DELETE FROM new;
COPY new WITH OIDS FROM '/tmp/pgtable';
CREATE TABLE new_table(mycol int);
SELECT oid AS old_oid, mycol INTO tmp_table FROM old_table;
COPY tmp_table TO '/tmp/pgtable';
COPY new_table WITH OIDS FROM '/tmp/pgtable';
DROP TABLE tmp_table;
OIDs are stored as 4-byte integers, and will overflow at 4 billion. No
one has reported this ever happening, and we plan to have the limit