Re: Solving OID wrap-around in 7.4 DB?

On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 07:28:00AM -0400, Jeff Boes wrote:
> On behalf of a previous employer who, due to major downsizing, is left
> without an answer to this:
>
> What's the best way to treat impending OID wrap-around in a 7.4.8
> database? This DB has been online for about 18 months, and is expected
> to hit the dreaded wrap-around in about a month. At an application

How many OIDs have been recovered?  If the answer is "none" (i.e. the
database doesn't have many deletes), then there isn't likely much you
can do about it -- reloading the database is going to cause the same
problem.

As Chris says in another message, you can use Slony to replicate the
database, in order not to have a long outage.  Note, too, that since
you say most tables don't actually use this pg_oid_status method, you
can get away with creating most of the tables without OIDs, which
will stave off your problem for a while.  That'd probably even help
if the database mostly just grows, depending (of course) on where the
growth is.

A

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