On Thu, Aug 1, 2019 at 10:37 PM Peter Geoghegan <p...@bowt.ie> wrote: > > I pushed a commit that required a new pg_proc entry today. Had I not > been involved with the work that became commit a6417078, I would > definitely not have used an OID from the range reserved for devel > system catalogs (8000 - 8999). As I understand it, this is now > standard practice. > > Perhaps unsurprisingly, other committers didn't get the memo, and > haven't been using the special reserved range since its introduction > in March. I think that this could be avoided by simply making > unused_oids print a reminder about the new practice.
Huge +1. Last time I had to pick a new oid it took me ages to find the correct range for that. The script could even suggest a random free oid in the range, for extra laziness as you also suggested in the almost exact same mail at CAH2-WzmCzNMebiN4-8p=ON92m0Rz0ybxNEKrO_2J+9DqWfWP=a...@mail.gmail.com :)
