Tom Lane wrote:
> Perhaps OID would be a good choice even though it's horribly wrong on
> one level.
Either that or add unsigned numeric types to PG :-)
> I would rather see this as a contrib module.
I don't really have an opinion either way. Does anyone else have
thoughts on this?
> There has been *zero* consensus that we need this in core, nor any
> discussion about whether it might be a security hole.
ISTM if it can only be invoked by the superuser, it should be safe enough.
-Neil