Re: OID wraparound (was Re: pg_depend)

From: Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Mikheev, Vadim" <vmikheev(at)SECTORBASE(dot)COM>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OID wraparound (was Re: pg_depend)
Date: 2001-07-19 00:28:04
Message-ID: 3B562994.C740E09D@tpf.co.jp
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Hiroshi Inoue <Inoue(at)tpf(dot)co(dot)jp> writes:
> > I don't love current OIDs. However they have lived in PostgreSQL's
> > world too long and few people have pointed out that there's no magic
> > around OIDs. I agree to change OIDs to be per class but strongly
> > object to let OIDs optional.
>
> Uh ... what? I don't follow what you are proposing here.
>

I couldn't think of the cases that we need database-wide
uniqueness. So the uniqueness of OIDs could be only within
a table. But I object to the option that tables could have
no OIDs.

regards,
Hiroshi Inoue

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