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From: Dominique Devienne <[email protected]>
To: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
Cc: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Test cluster with high OIDs above the signed-int limit (2B+)
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2026 15:30:53 +0200
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On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 3:23 PM Ron Johnson <[email protected]> wrote:
> It's an unsigned integer, so I'd say not use signed ints when processing OIDs.

Well duh, that's why it's a bug.
But it's a sneaky bug, because clusters rarely enter that high-OID territory.
That's precisely why I'd like a way to provoke it.

> It's a valid question, though, what happens when the OID counter wraps around and hits a duplicate.

Again, I'm NOT interested in OID wrap-around. But the "second-half" of
the OID space.






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