On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 01:59:53AM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> We do already support platforms where Datum is 64 bits because pointers
> are 64 bits (eg, Alpha); on such hardware I think 64-bit OIDs would
> have near-zero added execution cost. But I'm troubled by the notion of
> having OID be 32 bits on some platforms and 64 on others. We have more
> than enough platform-dependency issues already...
I believe Peter already tried this, and concluded it wasn't worth
the trouble & performance hit:
http://www.ca.postgresql.org/~petere/oid8.html
Cheers,
Neil
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