Re: Planned change in initdb-time OID allocation

> What bothers me about this scheme is that genbki.sh can only create
> pg_description entries for objects with hand-assigned OIDs. It
> processes the DESCR() macro by emitting the OID of the last DATA macro,
> along with the description text, into a data file that's eventually
> copied into pg_description. But if there's no hand-assigned OID it has
> to punt --- it doesn't know what OID the object will have. This means
> we can't assign initdb-time descriptions to aggregate functions (for
> example), since we don't give them hand-assigned OIDs.

This was a known problem when I implemented pg_description. Your
solution sounds good.

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