Gavin Flower <GavinFlower@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On 10/03/12 09:15, Tom Lane wrote: >> The built-in data types have hand-assigned OIDs, as depicted in >> src/include/catalog/pg_type.h. While those aren't quite >> guaranteed-frozen, we've never changed one that I can recall, and are >> not very likely to in the future. > That kind of reasoning makes me nervous! > What if some developer wants to change the OIDs assigned for some > reason, and is blissfully unaware that people depend on those precise > values? The committers are well aware of this, at least, so I would be very surprised to see a random reassignment of type OIDs slip through. regards, tom lane -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
