From 768916d753cbe9ff0fbcb2557435be54d8b7d5df Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Momjian Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2004 04:09:40 +0000 Subject: This is a small fix in FAQ. It just clean up some old comments and change an old -not-working piece of code. --- doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html | 16 ++++++---------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc/src/FAQ') diff --git a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html index 326705ef806..8710360609d 100644 --- a/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html +++ b/doc/src/FAQ/FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ alink="#0000ff">

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for PostgreSQL

-

Last updated: Thu May 6 10:22:34 EDT 2004

+

Last updated: Fri Jun 4 00:09:16 EDT 2004

Current maintainer: Bruce Momjian (pgman@candle.pha.pa.us)
@@ -1213,16 +1213,12 @@ BYTEA bytea variable-length byte array (null-byte safe) 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 removed before anyone does.

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