Re: Proposal to introduce a shuffle function to intarray extension

John Naylor <john.naylor@enterprisedb.com> writes:
> On Mon, Jul 18, 2022 at 2:47 PM Martin Kalcher <
> martin.kalcher@aboutsource.net> wrote:
>> One more question. How do i pick a Oid for the functions?

> For this, we recommend running src/include/catalog/unused_oids, and it will
> give you a random range to pick from. That reduces the chance of different
> patches conflicting with each other. It doesn't really matter what the oid
> here is, since at feature freeze a committer will change them anyway.

If you want the nitty gritty details here, see

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/system-catalog-initial-data.html#SYSTEM-CATALOG-OID-ASSIGNMENT

            regards, tom lane