Peter Geoghegan <pg@bowt.ie> writes:
> On Fri, Feb 8, 2019 at 10:14 AM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> A script such as you suggest might be a good way to reduce the temptation
>> to get lazy at the last minute. Now that the catalog data is pretty
>> machine-readable, I suspect it wouldn't be very hard --- though I'm
>> not volunteering either. I'm envisioning something simple like "renumber
>> all OIDs in range mmmm-nnnn into range xxxx-yyyy", perhaps with the
>> ability to skip any already-used OIDs in the target range.
> I imagined that the machine-readable catalog data would allow us to
> assign non-numeric identifiers to this OID range. Perhaps there'd be a
> textual symbol with a number in the range of 0-20 at the end. Those
> would stick out like a sore thumb, making it highly unlikely that
> anybody would forget about it at the last minute.
Um. That would not be just an add-on script but something that
genbki.pl would have to accept. I'm not excited about that; it would
complicate what's already complex, and if it works enough for test
purposes then it wouldn't really stop a committer who wasn't paying
attention from committing the patch un-revised.
To the extent that this works at all, OIDs in the 9000 range ought
to be enough of a flag already, I think.
regards, tom lane