Re: regdatabase

Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
> For now, I've just added another case block for REGDATABASEOID to match the
> others.  If there are problems with non-pinned objects being considered
> shippable, it's not really the fault of this patch.  Also, from reading
> around [0], I get the idea that "shippability" might just mean that the
> same object _probably_ exists on the remote server.  Plus, there seems to
> be very few use-cases for shipping reg* values in the first place.  But
> even after reading lots of threads, code, and docs, I'm still not sure I
> fully grasp all the details here.

It's all quite squishy, unfortunately, because shippability is a
heuristic rather than something we can determine with certainty
(at reasonable cost, anyway).  But I agree with treating regdatabase
the same as the other reg* types, at least until someone shows up
with a counterexample.

            regards, tom lane