Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!news.albasani.net!feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.utanet.at!newscore.univie.ac.at!aconews-feed.univie.ac.at!aconews.univie.ac.at!not-for-mail From: "Laurenz Albe" Newsgroups: comp.databases.postgresql References: <1308640710.210659@proxy.dienste.wien.at><1308738638.232318@proxy.dienste.wien.at> <1308911383.819034@proxy.dienste.wien.at> <96j8s5Ft0hU1@mid.individual.net> Subject: Re: Is PostgreSQL good? Date: Fri, 24 Jun 2011 14:53:04 +0200 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Response X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6109 Organization: dienste.wien.at ISP Message-ID: <1308920005.384233@proxy.dienste.wien.at> X-Cache: nntpcache 2.3.3 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Lines: 14 NNTP-Posting-Host: 141.203.254.23 X-Trace: 1308920006 aconews.univie.ac.at 10322 141.203.254.23 X-Complaints-To: abuse@univie.ac.at Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.databases.postgresql:150 Hans Castorp wrote: >> You make the point that because of VACUUM there is nothing compared to >> Oracle's ROWID. > > PG's ctid is very similar as Oracle's ROWID (as similar as things like > that can be between completely different architectures) I mentioned that. I am afraid that my posting was too long and maybe not organized enough so that it got lost in the noise. Sorry. Yours, Laurenz Albe