Re: OID wraparound: summary and proposal

From: mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OID wraparound: summary and proposal
Date: 2001-08-03 11:52:14
Message-ID: 3B6A906E.D6EDC2E1@mohawksoft.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> mlw <markw(at)mohawksoft(dot)com> writes:
> > I posted this question earlier, but it looks like it never made it on.
>
> You did post it,
Sorry, it never got to me.

> and I answered it: no can do with anything close to the
> current implementation of the OID generator. We have one counter for
> the whole system, not per-table state.

That's a bummer. The concept of a ROWID is really useful, especially for those
that come from an Oracle background, or porting Oracle queries.

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