Re: Generate user/group sysids from a sequence? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > The reason I was being cautious is to handle cases where people are
> > poking in pg_shadow directly.
> 
> If they're poking pg_shadow directly, I think it's up to them to avoid
> or cope with sysid conflicts (the unique indexes on the table will
> prevent the worst errors).  ISTM it is sufficient for CREATE USER
> to not cause conflicts when used as documented.

OK.  Do we have many people left upgrading from pg_dump's that COPY into
pg_shadow?

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