Re: OID wraparound (was Re: pg_depend)

lamar.owen@wgcr.org (Lamar Owen) wrote in message news:<01071818103609.00973@lowen.wgcr.org>...

> [trimmed cc:list]

> On Wednesday 18 July 2001 17:09, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > OK, we need to vote on whether Oid's are optional, and whether we can

> > have them not created by default.

> 

> [All the below IMHO]

> 

> OID's should be optional.


yep.  we don't depend upon oids > 32 bits.  that's pretty standard
practice for serious db apps.  however, tx limit is a real problem.

my vote is for solving the tx limit before chaning the oid problem.