Re: [HACKERS] removing abstime, reltime, tinterval.c, spi/timetravel - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: [HACKERS] removing abstime, reltime, tinterval.c, spi/timetravel
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Msg-id 20626.1539131133@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] removing abstime, reltime, tinterval.c, spi/timetravel  (Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>)
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Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2018-10-09 16:17:44 -0700, Mark Dilger wrote:
>> I have no objection, but I'm curious, when retiring a datatype and
>> associated functions, do the Oids that were assigned to them become
>> available for new uses, or do you have to expire them to avoid breaking
>> pg_upgrade and such?  Retiring built-in types and functions seems
>> rare enough that I've not seen how this is handled before.

> I don't really see a need for preserving them.

Yeah, should be fine to recycle them.

            regards, tom lane


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