Re: How to set the global OID counter? COPY WITH OIDS does

From: Dirk Lutzebäck <lutzeb(at)aeccom(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, Sven Geisler <sgeisler(at)aeccom(dot)com>, pavel rabaev <pavel(at)aeccom(dot)com>
Subject: Re: How to set the global OID counter? COPY WITH OIDS does
Date: 2006-06-09 14:41:01
Message-ID: 4489887D.6080505@aeccom.com
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This is not a large object. We are seeing rows with duplicate oids
because the OID counter is not changed after the dump (exported with
--oids) is being loaded.
How does 8.1 prevent to allocate duplicate OIDs?

Regards,

Dirk

Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
>
>> Dirk Lutzebäck wrote:
>>
>>> how can one set the global OID counter in 8.1.X? We think it would work
>>> in 8.0.X using the COPY WITH OIDS command but this does not work in
>>> 8.1.X anymore.
>>>
>
>
>> pg_resetxlog -o
>> (Postmaster stopped of course)
>>
>
> Possibly more to the point: why do you think you need to mess with the
> counter? 8.1 is smart enough not to assign conflicting OIDs to large
> objects.
>
> regards, tom lane
>

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