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PostgreSQL's oid Implementation in C

Oct 1, 2026 6 min read Jay Hubbert

oid is the type of every system identifier in PostgreSQL: tables, indexes, functions, operators, types, namespaces. It looks like a narrower int4, and that is almost right. It is a …

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