I pushed a commit that required a new pg_proc entry today. Had I not
been involved with the work that became commit a6417078, I would
definitely not have used an OID from the range reserved for devel
system catalogs (8000 - 8999). As I understand it, this is now
standard practice.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, other committers didn't get the memo, and
haven't been using the special reserved range since its introduction
in March. I think that this could be avoided by simply making
unused_oids print a reminder about the new practice.
Is it within the discretion of committers to not use the reserved
range? It seems preferable for everybody to consistently use the
reserved OID range.
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Peter Geoghegan
