Re: How to set the global OID counter? COPY WITH OIDS does

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Dirk Lutzebäck <lutzeb(at)aeccom(dot)com>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org, pgsql-bugs(at)postgresql(dot)org, Sven Geisler <sgeisler(at)aeccom(dot)com>, pavel rabaev <pavel(at)aeccom(dot)com>
Subject: Re: How to set the global OID counter? COPY WITH OIDS does
Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 11:18:23 -0400

=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Dirk_Lutzeb=E4ck?= <lutzeb(at)aeccom(dot)com> writes:
> This is not a large object. We are seeing rows with duplicate oids 
> because the OID counter is not changed after the dump (exported with 
> --oids) is being loaded.
> How does 8.1 prevent to allocate duplicate OIDs?

If there's a unique index on the OID column then 8.1 will not allocate
duplicate OIDs.  If there's not such a unique index, you had no
guarantee of no-duplicates before 8.1 either.

			regards, tom lane

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