Re: heap_create with OID?

At 16:44 4/07/00 +1000, Chris Bitmead wrote:
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>Would this allow you to create a tuble with a user-specified oid?

To be honest, I have no idea - like I said, I just looked at the LO code
and heap.c. But I believe it will let me create a lo with the right OID.

>
>However you won't be able to discover if the oid is free or not. You
>could end up with duplicate oids. Thus anybody who uses the feature
>should know what they're doing.

OK; then it needs to be done by pg_restore ONLY when a full restore is
being done. pg_dump already has a crude way of setting the max OID at the
start of a restore; all I need to do is use that process when restoring blobs.


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