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Re: OID decreasing?

Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>

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From: Chris Bitmead <chrisb@nimrod.itg.telstra.com.au>
To: ldm@apartia.ch
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-08-17T23:23:43Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
I'm totally guessing here, but sometimes databases use a scheme where
each backend process grabs a chunk of oids for its own use to avoid
process contention on this single resource. Were they created with
multiple connections?

Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> In this table one can see that OID 178502 was created after OID 178593.
> Is this normal behaviour? I thought that OID sequences kept going up.
> 
>   oid   |   login   | price |        created
> --------+-----------+-------+------------------------
>  178383 | vindex    | 32500 | 2000-08-14 16:21:04+02
>  178384 | cunctator | 33000 | 2000-08-17 09:03:17+02
>  178432 | papy      | 33500 | 2000-08-17 09:15:15+02
>  178465 | vindex    | 34000 | 2000-08-17 09:15:59+02
>  178496 | papy      | 34500 | 2000-08-17 09:21:33+02
>  178497 | vindex    | 35000 | 2000-08-17 09:21:33+02
>  178499 | papy      | 65000 | 2000-08-17 12:27:09+02
>  178501 | vindex    | 75000 | 2000-08-17 12:27:09+02
>  178502 | papy      | 77500 | 2000-08-17 12:27:09+02
>  178528 | papy      | 35500 | 2000-08-17 12:26:02+02
>  178529 | vindex    | 36000 | 2000-08-17 12:26:02+02
>  178561 | papy      | 55000 | 2000-08-17 12:26:25+02
>  178562 | vindex    | 57500 | 2000-08-17 12:26:25+02
>  178592 | papy      | 60000 | 2000-08-17 12:26:52+02
>  178593 | vindex    | 62500 | 2000-08-17 12:26:52+02
> 
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