On Fri, May 30, 2025 at 04:55:58PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
>> For now, I've just added another case block for REGDATABASEOID to match the
>> others. If there are problems with non-pinned objects being considered
>> shippable, it's not really the fault of this patch. Also, from reading
>> around [0], I get the idea that "shippability" might just mean that the
>> same object _probably_ exists on the remote server. Plus, there seems to
>> be very few use-cases for shipping reg* values in the first place. But
>> even after reading lots of threads, code, and docs, I'm still not sure I
>> fully grasp all the details here.
>
> It's all quite squishy, unfortunately, because shippability is a
> heuristic rather than something we can determine with certainty
> (at reasonable cost, anyway). But I agree with treating regdatabase
> the same as the other reg* types, at least until someone shows up
> with a counterexample.
Got it, thanks for confirming.
--
nathan
