Re: System vs non-system casts - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Alvaro Herrera
Subject Re: System vs non-system casts
Date
Msg-id 20050412171249.GD25114@dcc.uchile.cl
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In response to Re: System vs non-system casts  (Andrew - Supernews <andrew+nonews@supernews.com>)
Responses Re: System vs non-system casts
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On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 05:04:03PM -0000, Andrew - Supernews wrote:
> On 2005-04-12, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl> wrote:
> >> Well perhaps there is an even better solution?
> >
> > What about the simple one of having a bool "pg_cast.castissystem"
> > column, or something similar?
> 
> Checking the OID might be sufficient if it were possible to make the OID
> counter restart at some value known to be greater than any datlastsysoid,
> rather than restarting at BootstrapOid.

In fact AFAICT it does start at BootstrapObjectIdData, which is 16384 by
default.

-- 
Alvaro Herrera (<alvherre[@]dcc.uchile.cl>)
Management by consensus: I have decided; you concede.
(Leonard Liu)


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