On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 9:46 PM Tom Lane <t...@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote: > Perhaps this also gives some impetus to the lets-use-identifiers- > not-numbers approach that Andrew was pushing. I didn't care for > that too much so far as an extension's own internal references > are concerned, but for cross-extension references it seems a > lot better to be looking for "postgis / function_foo_int_int" > than for "postgis / 3".
Yeah, I agree. I think names are a good idea. I also agree with the other comments that trying to run an OID registry will not work out well. Either we'll accept every request for an OID range and go nuts tracking them all as they rapidly balloon -- or more likely we'll reject requests from insufficiently-famous extensions which will, of course, hinder their attempts to become famous. It seems much better to come up with a solution where every extension can DTRT without any central coordination. Perhaps if we replaced OIDs with UUIDs that would Just Work, but an OID-mapping system seems like a good, perhaps better, answer as well. -- Robert Haas EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company
