Re: Pro et contra of preserving pg_proc oids during pg_upgrade

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Nikita Malakhov <hukutoc(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Pro et contra of preserving pg_proc oids during pg_upgrade
Date: 2023-10-13 06:14:54
Message-ID: 54121d8abf6440d46daa91528c4df8c0fc29f7cd.camel@cybertec.at
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On Thu, 2023-10-12 at 19:56 +0300, Nikita Malakhov wrote:
> Say, we have data processed by some user function and we want to keep reference to this function
> in our data. In this case we have two ways - first - store string output of regprocedure, which is not
> very convenient, and the second - store its OID, which requires slight modification of pg_upgrade
> (pg_dump and func/procedure creation function).

So far, we have lived quite well with the rule "don't store any system OIDs in the database
if you want to pg_upgrade" (views on system objects, reg* data types, ...).

What is inconvenient about storing the output of regprocedure?

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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