| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: OID wraparound: summary and proposal |
| Date: | 2001-08-03 13:21:46 |
| Message-ID: | 200108031321.f73DLkO20143@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> ncm(at)zembu(dot)com (Nathan Myers) writes:
> > At the same time that we announce support for optional OIDs,
> > we should announce that, in future releases, OIDs will only be
> > guaranteed unique (modulo wraparounds) within a single table.
>
> Seems reasonable --- that will give people notice that we're thinking
> about separate-OID-generator-per-table ideas.
>
> Right now we don't really document any of these considerations,
> but I plan to write something as part of the work I'm about to do.
But why do that if we have sequences?
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