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

John Naylor <john.naylor@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> Now it looks like:
> perl  renumber_oids.pl  --first-mapped-oid 8000 --last-mapped-oid 8999
>  --first-target-oid 2000  *.dat
> To prevent a maintenance headache, I didn't copy any of the formatting
> logic over. You'll also have to run reformat_dat_files.pl afterwards
> to restore that. It seems to work, but I haven't tested thoroughly.

I didn't like the use of Data::Dumper, because it made it quite impossible
to check what the script had done by eyeball.  After some thought
I concluded that we could probably just apply the changes via
search-and-replace, which is pretty ugly and low-tech but it leads to
easily diffable results, whether or not the initial state is exactly
what reformat_dat_files would produce.

I also changed things so that the OID mapping is computed before we start
changing any files, because as it stood the objects would get renumbered
in a pretty random order; and I renamed one of the switches so they all
have unique one-letter abbreviations.

Experimenting with this, I realized that it couldn't renumber OIDs that
are defined in .h files rather than .dat files, which is a serious
deficiency, but given the search-and-replace implementation it's not too
hard to fix up the .h files as well.  So I did that, and removed the
expectation that the target files would be listed on the command line;
that seems more likely to be a foot-gun than to do anything useful.

I've successfully done check-world after renumbering every OID above
4000 to somewhere else.  I also tried renumbering everything below
4000, which unsurprisingly blew up because there are various catalog
columns we haven't fixed to use symbolic OIDs.  (The one that initdb
immediately trips over is pg_database.dattablespace.)  I'm not sure
if it's worth the trouble to make that totally clean, but I suspect
we ought to at least mop up text-search references to be symbolic.
That's material for a separate patch though.

This seems committable from my end --- any further comments?

			regards, tom lane