Re: OID wraparound: summary and proposal

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: OID wraparound: summary and proposal
Date: 2001-08-07 16:10:06
Message-ID: 3B7012DE.E81B4171@tm.ee
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Tom Lane wrote:
>
> Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee> writes:
> > I guess that the change of OID from 4 to 8 bytes could be carried out
> > as a compile time option ?
>
> Not unless you like the notion that the wire protocol depends on a
> compile time option.

That could be a separate option, perhaps even a runtime one.

And yet another flag for determining weather to raise an error on
wire-oid
overflow or just to masquerade it as rollower ;)

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Hannu

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