Re: pgsql: Bumping catversion due to changes to pg_trigger and pg_rewrite.

From: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pgsql: Bumping catversion due to changes to pg_trigger and pg_rewrite.
Date: 2007-03-20 04:13:34
Message-ID: 45FF5F6E.2010307@Yahoo.com
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On 3/20/2007 12:08 AM, Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 3/20/2007 12:00 AM, Neil Conway wrote:
>> Jan Wieck wrote:
>>> BTW, the comment in this file says that we hope we never have more than
>>> 10 catversion changes per day, but to even make this possible we should
>>> start counting at zero, shouldn't we?
>>>
>>
>> The comment says "hopefully we'll never commit ten independent sets of
>> catalog changes on the same day" (not > 10), so the comment isn't wrong.
>> But I guess there wouldn't be any harm at starting at zero...
>
> Since the entire catversion number is used as an integer, counting 0...9
> vs. 1...0 makes quite a difference. And that difference manifests itself
> >9, not >10.

Sheesh ... yes, rereading your remark I get it. The comment is correct,
because the problem case is "10", no more and no less.

Jan

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