| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> |
| Cc: | Joel Jacobson <joel(at)gluefinance(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, Jim Nasby <jim(at)nasby(dot)net>, Herrera Alvaro <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Bug in pg_describe_object (was: Re: [HACKERS] obj_unique_identifier(oid)) |
| Date: | 2011-01-10 21:37:20 |
| Message-ID: | 646.1294695440@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Andreas Karlsson <andreas(at)proxel(dot)se> writes:
> Here is the bug-fix patch again with a description of the context so I
> can add it to the commit fest.
> Joel Jacobson discovered a bug in the function pg_describe_object where
> it does not produce unique identifiers for some entries in pg_amproc.
There was never any intention that that code produce a guaranteed-unique
identifier; it's only meant to be a humanly useful identifer, and this
patch seems to me to mostly add noise.
regards, tom lane
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