Re: [HACKERS] removing abstime, reltime, tinterval.c, spi/timetravel

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de>
Cc: Mark Dilger <hornschnorter(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] removing abstime, reltime, tinterval.c, spi/timetravel
Date: 2018-10-10 00:25:33
Message-ID: 20626.1539131133@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> writes:
> On 2018-10-09 16:17:44 -0700, Mark Dilger wrote:
>> I have no objection, but I'm curious, when retiring a datatype and
>> associated functions, do the Oids that were assigned to them become
>> available for new uses, or do you have to expire them to avoid breaking
>> pg_upgrade and such? Retiring built-in types and functions seems
>> rare enough that I've not seen how this is handled before.

> I don't really see a need for preserving them.

Yeah, should be fine to recycle them.

regards, tom lane

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