"Lipker, Joseph" <Joseph.Lipker@WRECO1.com> writes:
> You mentioned "performance glitches". What would those be? Errors or system performance slowdowns.
Slowdowns --- specifically, the behavior is "generate next sequential
OID, probe index to see if it exists in table, repeat until not".
So if you've got a long run of consecutive OIDs in the same table,
when the OID counter reaches that point it could take a while to
assign the next free OID successfully. This would manifest as a slower
than expected INSERT.
regards, tom lane