On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 12:09:13PM +0200, Francesco Dalla Ca' wrote: > The PostgreSQL manual explain that from 8.1 the default behavior > (governed by default_with_oids system parameter) is to create user > tables "without oids". > > Well, at the page > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.1/interactive/datatype-oid.html , the > manual report this: > "Object identifiers (OIDs) are used internally by PostgreSQL as primary > keys for various system tables." > > What do i look and take care about the OID wraparound phenomenon? (On a > DBA perspective) > There is a possibility for a data inconsistency? (Or possibles database > blocking errors?) > What's the differents server behaviors for this phenomenon on differents > realeases? In older versions if you wrapped the OID counter you'd get an error about 'unable to create file' when you tried to create a new object and the OID counter was pointing at a OID that had been used for another object. That's fixed in 8.1. -- Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117 vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
