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Re: Do the datatypes have set id/oid that are constant? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Do the datatypes have set id/oid that are constant?
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Msg-id 26058.1032182518@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Do the datatypes have set id/oid that are constant?  (Mark Worsdall <mysql@wizdom.org.uk>)
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Mark Worsdall <mysql@wizdom.org.uk> writes:
> I was wandering if the oid's for the datatypes are the same for every
> installation of postgres?

Built-in datatypes will have the same OIDs in every installation of a
given version (and, in practice, they generally don't change across
versions either).  Types created after initdb will have variable OIDs.

            regards, tom lane

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