Re: Can you run out of oids? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Can you run out of oids?
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Msg-id 44CFA4D3.9090907@commandprompt.com
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In response to Re: Can you run out of oids?  (Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org>)
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Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 02:02:18PM -0400, Chris Hoover wrote:
>> Somewhat silly question, but is it possible to run out of OID's?
>
> Nope. When you reach 4 billion, they just start again at zero.

O.k. but there is a catch.. if you are using them, they can and will
wrap. So don't use OIDs.

Joshua D. Drake


>
> Have a nice day,



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