On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 5:09 PM Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote: > In the kludgey patch that I posted, the 4-byte value is manufactured > artificially within a backend in descending order. That may have a > slight advantage over object oid, even after the pg_depend correctness > issues are addressed. A fixed order within a backend or originating > transaction seems like it might avoid a few remaining instability > issues. Not sure. I seem to recall there being some disagreement > between you and Andres on this very point (is object oid a perfectly > stable tie-breaker in practice?) on a similar thread from 2017.
Here are your remarks about it on that 2017 thread: https://www.postgresql.org/message-id/11852.1501610262%40sss.pgh.pa.us -- Peter Geoghegan
