Re: OIDs (Or: another RTFM question?)

From: Joel Rees <joel(at)alpsgiken(dot)gr(dot)jp>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OIDs (Or: another RTFM question?)
Date: 2002-07-17 01:42:06
Message-ID: 20020717103747.73BA.JOEL@alpsgiken.gr.jp
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Tom Lane explained:

> Basically what WITHOUT OIDS does for you is to reduce consumption of
> OIDs, thereby postponing wraparound of the 32-bit OID counter. While
> the system itself isn't fazed by such a wraparound, user programs that
> look at OIDs might be.

How much of a pain would it be to make that a 64-bit counter? Would that
create conflicts with the SQL standard?

(No, I don't contribute code, so if that's a really stupid idea, just tell
me so.)

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Joel Rees <joel(at)alpsgiken(dot)gr(dot)jp>

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