Re: OID wraparound (was Re: pg_depend)

From: Alessio Bragadini <alessio(at)albourne(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OID wraparound (was Re: pg_depend)
Date: 2001-07-20 08:10:32
Message-ID: 3B57E778.91ED2EF6@albourne.com
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Tom Lane wrote:

> >> What's wrong with 64-bit oids (except extra 4bytes)?
>
> > Portability, mostly.
>
> Oh, there's one other small problem: breaking the on-the-wire protocol.

So 8-byte-OID is for PostgreSQL 8? :-)

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