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Re: [HACKERS] INT2OID, etc.

Darren King <darrenk@insightdist.com> — 1998-02-27T14:45:24Z

> Brett McCormick wrote:
> > 
> > Can we have all the constants put in pg_type?  In the implementation
> > of my perl PL language, some types I care about aren't defined so I
> > must define them myself, which seems dangerous (should they ever
> > change)
> > 
> > On Fri, 27 February 1998, at 12:15:21, Vadim B. Mikheev wrote:
> > 
> > > I like second way (and so - we should copy pg_type to ~pgsql/include or
> > > something like this) but it would be nice if you support more
> > > general 1st way too.
> 
> We should do this.

Is there anything to prevent someone from deleting that function and
then recreating it?  If that happens, it will then have a different oid.

darrenk