Re: pgsql: Add pg_depend.refobjversion.

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Thomas Munro <tmunro(at)postgresql(dot)org>, pgsql-committers <pgsql-committers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pgsql: Add pg_depend.refobjversion.
Date: 2020-11-05 19:17:57
Message-ID: 1517965.1604603877@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 3:50 PM Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> AFAIK the agreed-on process is to do that once per release cycle.
>> Is there some reason why it needs to be done now?

> Did we ever actually document this process somewhere? I went looking
> for it some time ago and failed to find it (and eventually found the
> old email thread(s) around it, but that's not really documentation),
> but that could definitely be my searching....

Yeah, it's documented here:

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/system-catalog-initial-data.html#SYSTEM-CATALOG-OID-ASSIGNMENT

and there is an entry in src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES to remind us
to actually do the cleanup work.

regards, tom lane

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