Re: Why don't we have a small reserved OID range for patch revisions?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why don't we have a small reserved OID range for patch revisions?
Date: 2019-02-27 22:44:30
Message-ID: 729f7d3d-2c6f-6809-398e-b343075687ae@2ndquadrant.com
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On 2019-02-27 22:50, Peter Geoghegan wrote:
> However, the continuous
> integration stuff has created an expectation that your patch shouldn't
> be left to bitrot for long. Silly mechanical bitrot now seems like a
> much bigger problem than it was before these developments. It unfairly
> puts reviewers off engaging.

If this is the problem (although I think we'd find that OID collisions
are rather rare compared to other gratuitous cfbot failures), why not
have the cfbot build with a flag that ignores OID collisions?

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Peter Eisentraut http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services

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