Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> writes:
> On 2019-07-28 10:07:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>> In the long run, might we ever switch to 64-bit OIDs? I dunno.
> Depends on the the table, I'd say. Having toast tables have 64bit ids,
> and not advance the oid counter, would be quite the advantage over the
> current situation. Toasting performance craters once the oid counter has
> wrapped. But obviously there are upgrade problems there - presumably
> we'd need 'narrow" and 'wide' toast tables, or such.
Yeah, but I'd be inclined to fix toast tables as a special case,
rather than widening OIDs in general. We could define the chunk
number as being int8 not OID for the "wide" style.
regards, tom lane
