Tom Lane explained:
> Basically what WITHOUT OIDS does for you is to reduce consumption of
> OIDs, thereby postponing wraparound of the 32-bit OID counter. While
> the system itself isn't fazed by such a wraparound, user programs that
> look at OIDs might be.
How much of a pain would it be to make that a 64-bit counter? Would that
create conflicts with the SQL standard?
(No, I don't contribute code, so if that's a really stupid idea, just tell
me so.)
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Joel Rees <joel(at)alpsgiken(dot)gr(dot)jp>