Re: Why don't we have a small reserved OID range for patch revisions?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter(dot)eisentraut(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Why don't we have a small reserved OID range for patch revisions?
Date: 2019-03-01 23:05:05
Message-ID: 1872.1551481505@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> writes:
> On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 11:56 AM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
>> It would be neat if there were a tool you could run to somehow tell
>> you whether catversion needs to be changed for a given patch.

> That seems infeasible because of stored rules. A lot of things bleed
> into that. We could certainly do better at documenting this on the
> "committing checklist" page, though.

A first approximation to that is "did you touch readfuncs.c", though
that rule will give a false positive if you only changed Plan nodes.

regards, tom lane

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