Re: pg_class.oid at 4B

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Radoslav Nedyalkov <rnedyalkov(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: pg_class.oid at 4B
Date: 2021-10-21 05:53:07
Message-ID: 18daaa4fb24c011b851fa88161c8ac86e335109e.camel@cybertec.at
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On Wed, 2021-10-20 at 23:29 +0300, Radoslav Nedyalkov wrote:
> We have a busy database that has oid increasing with 50-100M  per month.
> There is no oid type across user attributes anywhere nor user tables with oids;
> Not sure where this generation comes from. If you can hint me, it would be great.
> Also what happens when pg_class.oid reaches 4B.
> pg_class itself is ~40K.

Hard to say, perhaps you are creating lots of temporary tables (watch out
for pg_attribute bloat!). The OID counter will simply wrap around, but there
will be no duplicate OIDs in pg_class.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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