| From: | Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie>, Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com>, Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz>, PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: The unused_oids script should have a reminder to use the 8000-8999 OID range |
| Date: | 2019-08-02 21:52:31 |
| Message-ID: | CAMsGm5ev43qpAgS++7C6nfzr2se2X9YPt=ATVUW878=SgHZLjw@mail.gmail.com |
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On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 at 16:49, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> Peter Geoghegan <pg(at)bowt(dot)ie> writes:
> > I've taken your patch, and changed the wording a bit. I think that
> > it's worth being a bit more explicit. The attached revision produces
> > output that looks like this:
>
> > Patches should use a more-or-less consecutive range of OIDs.
> > Best practice is to make a random choice in the range 8000-9999.
> > Suggested random unused OID: 9099
>
Noob question here: why not start with the next unused OID in the range,
and on the other hand reserve the range for sequentially-assigned values?
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