Re: OID wraparound: summary and proposal - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: OID wraparound: summary and proposal
Date
Msg-id 200108031321.f73DLkO20143@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: OID wraparound: summary and proposal  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses RE: OID wraparound: summary and proposal
List pgsql-hackers
> ncm@zembu.com (Nathan Myers) writes:
> > At the same time that we announce support for optional OIDs,
> > we should announce that, in future releases, OIDs will only be 
> > guaranteed unique (modulo wraparounds) within a single table.
> 
> Seems reasonable --- that will give people notice that we're thinking
> about separate-OID-generator-per-table ideas.
> 
> Right now we don't really document any of these considerations,
> but I plan to write something as part of the work I'm about to do.

But why do that if we have sequences?

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