Re: automatically assigning catalog toast oids

Greetings,

* Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> John Naylor <jcnaylor(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > Commit 96cdeae07 added toast tables to most catalogs. One disadvantage
> > is that the toast declarations require hard-coded oids, even though
> > only shared catalogs actually need stable oids. Now that we can assign
> > oids on the fly, it makes sense to do so for toast tables as well, as
> > in the attached.
>
> I'm a bit dubious that this is a good idea. It's handy, at least for
> forensic situations, that the system catalogs have stable OIDs.

I tend to agree... What's the advantage of assigning them on the fly?

Thanks!

Stephen