On 9/25/12 8:48 PM, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
> That still leaves the other uses for having well known Oids (or possibly
> UUIDs) for non-builtin types (e.g. so Drivers don't have to look them up
> in the catalogs, or having issues when types are added to the core.)
Here is a problem: If I write an "hstore-ng" extension, I have two options:
1. "Steal" the OID/UUID assigned to hstore so my extension integrates
nicely with all the drivers.
2. Don't steal the OID/UUID assigned to hstore and have a very low
chance that my extension will ever be supported nicely by a lot of drivers.
Neither option is very nice.
