Re: OID wraparound: summary and proposal - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From mlw
Subject Re: OID wraparound: summary and proposal
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Msg-id 3B6A906E.D6EDC2E1@mohawksoft.com
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In response to OID wraparound: summary and proposal  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> mlw <markw@mohawksoft.com> writes:
> > I posted this question earlier, but it looks like it never made it on.
> 
> You did post it,
Sorry, it never got to me.

> and I answered it: no can do with anything close to the
> current implementation of the OID generator.  We have one counter for
> the whole system, not per-table state.

That's a bummer. The concept of a ROWID is really useful, especially for those
that come from an Oracle background, or porting Oracle queries.

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