Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: Problem concerns copy command with big oids

> Date: Sun, 14 Mar 1999 13:58:01 -0500 (EST)
> From: Unprivileged user <nobody@hub.org>
> To: pgsql-ports@postgreSQL.org

> Not a fix, but maybe a hint:
> It seems to me that the internal representation of the oids
> is not consistent (long int - unsigned long int). I
> realized that the oid of ONE dataset sometimes was printed
> as a negative number and in other cases as a positive
> number (when big enough).

I guess that psql does not "recycle" oid numbers when you delete 1 oid and
create a oid (BLOB) again.

Another problem is that PSQL should delete the oid file when you delete the
row that references it.

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