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

Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-02-09T09:10:52Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 11:59 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> To the extent that this works at all, OIDs in the 9000 range ought
> to be enough of a flag already, I think.

A "flag" that isn't documented anywhere outside of a mailing list
discussion and that isn't checked by any code anywhere is not much of
a flag, IMHO.

-- 
Robert Haas
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The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company


Commits

  1. Remove remaining hard-wired OID references in the initial catalog data.

  2. Create a script that can renumber manually-assigned OIDs.

  3. Minor improvements for reformat_dat_file.pl.