Re: Release notes on "reserved OIDs"

Hi,

On 2019-08-30 22:44:53 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 12:35:09PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > > Hmm. I wonder if this item really belongs in the release notes at all.
> > > My view is that this was interim policy, not necessarily a permanent
> > > thing; and it's oriented strictly towards PG developers rather than end
> > > users or even fork-developers.
> >
> > I think it's the sort of thing that we sometimes cover in the
> > "source code" changes of the release notes. But yeah, 09568ec3d's
> > idea was pretty much fully superseded by a6417078c, so if we're
> > going to document anything it should be the latter not the former.
>
> OK, sure. I was just basing the release notes on this commit text:
>
> Add a note suggesting that oids in forks should be assigned in the
> 9000-9999 range.

But how do you get from forks in that sentence from the commit message
(or the source, which says " with 9000-9999 tentatively reserved for
forks"), to the range being for "external extensions"? Those are very
different things imo?

Greetings,

Andres Freund