Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2019 02:43:15 -0700
From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com>,
	pgsql-docs@lists.postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Release notes on "reserved OIDs"
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Hi,

On 2019-08-30 22:44:53 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 12:35:09PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > > 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.
> > 
> > I think it's the sort of thing that we sometimes cover in the
> > "source code" changes of the release notes.  But yeah, 09568ec3d's
> > idea was pretty much fully superseded by a6417078c, so if we're
> > going to document anything it should be the latter not the former.
> 
> OK, sure.  I was just basing the release notes on this commit text:
> 
>     Add a note suggesting that oids in forks should be assigned in the
>     9000-9999 range.

But how do you get from forks in that sentence from the commit message
(or the source, which says " with 9000-9999 tentatively reserved for
forks"), to the range being for "external extensions"? Those are very
different things imo?

Greetings,

Andres Freund