Tom Lane wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>> Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net> writes:
>>
>>> OK, that will be easy enough. I assume I should still put InvalidOid
>>> back again afterwards, in case someone downstream relies on it.
>>>
>
>
>> Can't imagine what ...
>>
>
> Actually ... what *could* change in the future is that we might support
> UPDATE'ing the OID to a different value. So what the code probably
> needs to do is something like
>
> if (relation->rd_rel->relhasoids &&
> !OidIsValid(HeapTupleGetOid(newtup)))
> HeapTupleSetOid(newtup, HeapTupleGetOid(oldtup));
>
> (details stolen from heap_update)
>
>
>
Your wish is my command. Done.
cheers
andrew