I'm totally guessing here, but sometimes databases use a scheme where
each backend process grabs a chunk of oids for its own use to avoid
process contention on this single resource. Were they created with
multiple connections?
Louis-David Mitterrand wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> In this table one can see that OID 178502 was created after OID 178593.
> Is this normal behaviour? I thought that OID sequences kept going up.
>
> oid | login | price | created
> --------+-----------+-------+------------------------
> 178383 | vindex | 32500 | 2000-08-14 16:21:04+02
> 178384 | cunctator | 33000 | 2000-08-17 09:03:17+02
> 178432 | papy | 33500 | 2000-08-17 09:15:15+02
> 178465 | vindex | 34000 | 2000-08-17 09:15:59+02
> 178496 | papy | 34500 | 2000-08-17 09:21:33+02
> 178497 | vindex | 35000 | 2000-08-17 09:21:33+02
> 178499 | papy | 65000 | 2000-08-17 12:27:09+02
> 178501 | vindex | 75000 | 2000-08-17 12:27:09+02
> 178502 | papy | 77500 | 2000-08-17 12:27:09+02
> 178528 | papy | 35500 | 2000-08-17 12:26:02+02
> 178529 | vindex | 36000 | 2000-08-17 12:26:02+02
> 178561 | papy | 55000 | 2000-08-17 12:26:25+02
> 178562 | vindex | 57500 | 2000-08-17 12:26:25+02
> 178592 | papy | 60000 | 2000-08-17 12:26:52+02
> 178593 | vindex | 62500 | 2000-08-17 12:26:52+02
>
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