Re: [RFC] Removing "magic" oids

On 11/15/18, Andres Freund <andres(at)anarazel(dot)de> wrote:
> I've now revised this slightly. genbki.pl now computes the maximum oid
> explicitly assigned in .dat files, and assignes oids to all 'oid'
> columns without a value. It does so starting directly at the maximum
> value. I personally don't see need to have implicit .bki oids be in a
> different range, and having them assigned more densely is good for some
> things (e.g. the fmgr builtins table, even though we currently assign
> all proc oids manually).

I don't see an advantage to having a different range, but maybe it
should error out if $maxoid reaches FirstBootstrapObjectId.

This patch breaks reformat_dat_file.pl. I've attached a fix, which
also de-lists oid as a special key within the *.dat files. It might be
good to put off reformatting until feature freeze, so as not to break
others' patches.

-John Naylor