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From Thomas Lockhart
Subject Re: [7.0.2] Negative OIDs?
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In response to [7.0.2] Negative OIDs?  (The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>)
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> I always thought that an OID was unsigned ...

It is. But we cheat and use the int4 i/o routines. There are notes in
the sources pointing this out.
                  - Thomas

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