Re: Create View failing
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Bryan White" <bryan@arcamax.com>
Cc: "pgsql-general" <pgsql-general@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-11-28T21:54:35Z
Lists: pgsql-general
"Bryan White" <bryan@arcamax.com> writes: >> I'll take a look, but in the meantime you might be faced with an initdb >> to bring the OID counter back under 2G :-( > I tried creating the view on the main server and it worked just fine. If > the OID limit has been exceeded, would not the database load fail miserably? > Or are you saying that the limit is really 4G but there is a bug in 'create > view' that limits it to 2G? It should be 4G, but not all the code has been checked to make sure that OIDs are always treated as unsigned rather than signed :-(. There are probably more weak spots than just views ... regards, tom lane