Re: WIP: extensible enums

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
Cc: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: WIP: extensible enums
Date: 2010-08-24 00:26:10
Message-ID: 16345.1282609570@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> I also noticed you grab an oid for the new type using the oid counter
> without trying to make it in sorted order. Seems that would be possible
> for adding enums to the end of the list, and might not be worth it. A
> quick hack might be to just try of an oid+1 from the last enum and see
> if that causes a conflict with the pg_enum.oid index.

That wouldn't be race-condition-safe.

regards, tom lane

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