Re: Translation of the NextOID message in pg_controldata - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Translation of the NextOID message in pg_controldata
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In response to Re: Translation of the NextOID message in pg_controldata  (Álvaro Herrera <alvherre@kurilemu.de>)
Responses Re: Fix duplicate detection for null-treatment window functions
Re: Translation of the NextOID message in pg_controldata
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On Mon, Sep 14, 2026 at 08:41:59AM +0200, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> I'm not sure I understand why we care that we hardcode that Oid8 is the
> same as uint64.  It's never been a problem that Oid is the same as uin32 ...

For me, the reason is greppability of oid8 information as the
variables printed in the strings may not refer to variables declared
in the code.
--
Michael

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