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

Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>

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From: Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-02-08T18:35:14Z
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On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 10:29 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
> Um.  That would not be just an add-on script but something that
> genbki.pl would have to accept.  I'm not excited about that; it would
> complicate what's already complex, and if it works enough for test
> purposes then it wouldn't really stop a committer who wasn't paying
> attention from committing the patch un-revised.
>
> To the extent that this works at all, OIDs in the 9000 range ought
> to be enough of a flag already, I think.

I tend to agree that this isn't enough of a problem to justify making
genbki.pl significantly more complicated.

-- 
Peter Geoghegan

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.