RE: OID wraparound (was Re: [HACKERS] pg_depend)

[Mikheev, Vadim]

> OK, we need to vote on whether Oid's are optional,
> and whether we can have them not created by default.

Optional OIDs:      YES
No OIDs by default: YES

> > > However, OID's keep our system tables together.
> > 
> > How?! If we want to find function with oid X we query
> > pg_proc, if we want to find table with oid Y we query
> > pg_class - we always use oids in context of "class"
> > to what an object belongs. This means that two tuples
> > from different system tables could have same oid values
> > and everything would work perfectly.
> 
> I meant we use them in many cases to link entries, and in
> pg_description for descriptions and lots of other things
> that may use them in the future for system table use.

So, add class' ID (uniq id from pg_class) when linking.

Vadim

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