From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Release notes on "reserved OIDs"
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 11:34:24 -0400
Message-ID: <20190830153424.GA3324@alvherre.pgsql> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19086.1567176057@sss.pgh.pa.us>
On 2019-Aug-30, Tom Lane wrote:
> <listitem>
> <!--
> Author: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
> 2018-12-13 [09568ec3d] Create a separate oid range for oids assigned by genbki.
> -->
>
> <para>
> Reserve a range of OIDs (9000-9999) to be used for external
> extensions (Andres Freund)
> </para>
> </listitem>
>
> This seems more or less completely misleading.
Hmm. I wonder if this item really belongs in the release notes at all.
My view is that this was interim policy, not necessarily a permanent
thing; and it's oriented strictly towards PG developers rather than end
users or even fork-developers.
--
Álvaro Herrera https://www.2ndQuadrant.com/
PostgreSQL Development, 24x7 Support, Remote DBA, Training & Services
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