Re: pgsql: Bumping catversion due to changes to pg_trigger and pg_rewrite. - Mailing list pgsql-committers

From Jan Wieck
Subject Re: pgsql: Bumping catversion due to changes to pg_trigger and pg_rewrite.
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Msg-id 45FF5E22.2010906@Yahoo.com
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In response to Re: pgsql: Bumping catversion due to changes to pg_trigger and pg_rewrite.  (Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Bumping catversion due to changes to pg_trigger and pg_rewrite.
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On 3/20/2007 12:00 AM, Neil Conway wrote:
> Jan Wieck wrote:
>> BTW, the comment in this file says that we hope we never have more than
>> 10 catversion changes per day, but to even make this possible we should
>> start counting at zero, shouldn't we?
>>
>
> The comment says "hopefully we'll never commit ten independent sets of
> catalog changes on the same day" (not > 10), so the comment isn't wrong.
> But I guess there wouldn't be any harm at starting at zero...

Since the entire catversion number is used as an integer, counting 0...9
vs. 1...0 makes quite a difference. And that difference manifests itself
 >9, not >10.


Jan

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