Re: Ever increasing OIDs - gonna run out soon?

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:01:43AM +0800, Qingqing Zhou wrote:
>
> "John Sidney-Woollett" <johnsw@wardbrook.com> wrote
> >
> > It looks like the db is using them at the rate of 1.5 million per day.
> > At what value will I hit a wraparound, and what options do I have to
> > identify/fix the (impending) problem.
> >
>
> The Oid will wraparound when it reaches the 32bits unsigned integer limit.
> If you don't use the oid explicitely in your application, then you don't
> worry about it.

Except IIRC the OP is running 7.4 which doesn't have checks in DDL code
to deal with OID collisions. :(
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