Re: last built-in oid

"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> Ah. What about in 7.0.3 and below?

There is no good way --- if there were, we'd not have bothered to invent
datlastsysoid. pg_dump used to use the OID of the template1 database
as an estimate of the last built-in OID. This was wrong to begin with,
and is completely untenable in 7.1 (template1's OID is now 1).

> Basically this because I am attempting to select all built-in
> functions.

If you only care about functions then it's probably possible to
hard-wire an assumption that system functions have OIDs < 16384.
Right now all built-in functions have manually-assigned OIDs,
so that works. But I wouldn't want to promise that it'll work
forever. It already doesn't work for aggregates, for example
(were you including aggregates in "functions"?).

regards, tom lane