Re: Oid registry

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Oid registry
Date: 2012-09-25 01:37:11
Message-ID: 1348537031.18490.5.camel@vanquo.pezone.net
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On Mon, 2012-09-24 at 18:59 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> This rather overdue mail arises out the developer's meeting back in
> May, where we discussed an item I raised suggesting an Oid registry.
>
> The idea came from some difficulties I encountered when I did the
> backport of the JSON work we did in 9.2 to 9.1, but has wider
> application. Say someone writes an extension that defines type A. You
> want to write an extension that takes advantage of that type, but it's
> difficult if you don't know the type's Oid,

Could you fill the rest of us in with some technical details about why
this might be necessary and what it aims to achieve?

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