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From Alessio Bragadini
Subject Re: OID wraparound (was Re: pg_depend)
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Msg-id 3B57E778.91ED2EF6@albourne.com
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In response to Re: OID wraparound (was Re: pg_depend)  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

> >> What's wrong with 64-bit oids (except extra 4bytes)?
> 
> > Portability, mostly.
> 
> Oh, there's one other small problem: breaking the on-the-wire protocol.

So 8-byte-OID is for PostgreSQL 8? :-)

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