> Paul Caskey <paul@nmxs.com> writes:
> > Okay, cool. Similar subject: What about making the oid 64-bit?
>
> Let's just say you'd be opening a *much* larger can of worms there,
> because Oid is used all over the place whereas only a few routines
> know anything about sequences.
>
> This is (or should be) on the TODO list but I wouldn't recommend it
> as your first backend programming project.
>
> > At first glance, this seems easier to change than the sequence
> > generator, since you guys do a good job of using sizeof() and the Oid
> > typedef.
>
> Except for all the places that assume Oid is interchangeable with int.
> Finding them is left as an exercise for the student...
It would be nice to get OID to act as an unsigned 'int' in all places.
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