Re: [7.0.2] Negative OIDs?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu>
Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [7.0.2] Negative OIDs?
Date: 2000-09-01 21:40:23
Message-ID: 29163.967844423@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:
>> I always thought that an OID was unsigned ...
>
> It is. But we cheat and use the int4 i/o routines. There are notes in
> the sources pointing this out.

We also cheat by using the int4 comparison routines, so sort order is
not what it should be ...

regards, tom lane

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