Re: pg_proc without oid?

From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: pg_proc without oid?
Date: 2007-02-19 18:30:21
Message-ID: 200702191930.22001.peter_e@gmx.net
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Tom Lane wrote:
> SQL script maybe, much along the lines Greg was just mentioning.

I would welcome that, although a similar suggestion was rejected a few
years ago, which is why I didn't pursue it here.

> you can't just decide to leave out a few OIDs on the
> spur of the moment.

I still don't understand why that would be a problem, aside from the
fmgrtab problem that is specific to pg_proc. Other system catalogs
also have mixed entries with and without explicit OIDs.

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Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

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