Postgres Pro
Downloads
Home   >   mailing lists

Re: Removing special case OID generation - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Removing special case OID generation
Date
Msg-id 6739.1328627140@sss.pgh.pa.us
Whole thread Raw
In response to Removing special case OID generation  (Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
Tree view 
Simon Riggs <simon@2ndQuadrant.com> writes:
> So ISTM that we should just strip out the OID handling code and just
> have a system sequence defined like this

I think this is a pretty poor idea, because the overhead of nextval()
is quite a lot larger than the overhead to get an OID.
        regards, tom lane

pgsql-hackers by date:

Previous
From: Tom Lane
Date:
Subject: Re: incorrect handling of the timeout in pg_receivexlog
Next
From: "Kevin Grittner"
Date:
Subject: Re: patch for preventing the specification of conflicting transaction read/write options