Have we decided it's really too difficult to remove all references to a
given sysid when the user is dropped? It seems like we're creating
multiple new problems in an effort to workaround one existing problem.
Robert Treat
On Fri, 2003-01-17 at 12:38, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> > >> This way, we don't need to bother with
> > >> touching the sequence at all during a CREATE USER with explicit sysid.
> >
> > > Well, the problem is that this could still cause the reuse of a deleted
> > > user, no? Wasn't that the problem we were originally trying to solve?
> >
> > Hmm, yeah I guess so. Okay, we do need to compare an explicit SYSID
> > setting to the sequence, and bump up the sequence if it's greater.
> > Annoying, but I guess there's no choice.
>
> Yea, I wished we could have avoided it too, but at least we are removing
> the sequential scan.
>
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