Re: [HACKERS] 6.5 TODO list - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] 6.5 TODO list
Date
Msg-id 199905111942.PAA21847@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] 6.5 TODO list  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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> (BTW, has anyone been thinking about increasing OID to more than 4
> bytes?  Folks are going to start hitting the 4G-tuples-per-database
> mark pretty soon.)

I have started to think about making our oid type more reliable as an
unsigned int.  Internally, it is unsigned int, but there are some issues
where this is not portably hadled.  It would double the current oid
maximum.

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