Re: [HACKERS] 6.5 TODO list

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Christopher Masto <chris(at)netmonger(dot)net>, PostgreSQL-development <hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] 6.5 TODO list
Date: 1999-05-11 19:42:26
Message-ID: 199905111942.PAA21847@candle.pha.pa.us
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> (BTW, has anyone been thinking about increasing OID to more than 4
> bytes? Folks are going to start hitting the 4G-tuples-per-database
> mark pretty soon.)

I have started to think about making our oid type more reliable as an
unsigned int. Internally, it is unsigned int, but there are some issues
where this is not portably hadled. It would double the current oid
maximum.

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