Re: Resurrecting pg_upgrade

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: "Matthew T(dot) O'Connor" <matthew(at)zeut(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Resurrecting pg_upgrade
Date: 2003-12-15 02:29:59
Message-ID: 5099.1071455399@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> Will we now have to be careful to NEVER re-use OIDs in the system catalogs.

No. The proposed pg_upgrade procedure doesn't try to reproduce OIDs of
catalog entries (other than toast-table OIDs, which are never
preassigned anyway), so there's no issue.

Good point though --- thanks for thinking about it.

regards, tom lane

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