Dear Tom,
> > So my question still is: Given the fact that I have some use for these
> > oids, would it make sense to submit a patch to add them?
>
> It will be rejected.
That's a simple a direct answer as I like them.
So I won't bother to submit a patch;-)
BTW, maybe you could reject some of the patches I submitted earlier,
rather than to simply ignore them?
> We removed pg_attribute OIDs some time ago, and we aren't going to put
> them back without a much better reason than this. If you need a
> specific counterargument, here is one: pg_attribute is normally much the
> largest catalog. If we required its rows to have unique OIDs, the
> probability of collisions after OID-counter wraparound would be much
> greater than it is in other catalogs.
Mmh. Maybe you could have considered sequences.
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Fabien Coelho - coelho@cri.ensmp.fr