Re: reducing the footprint of ScanKeyword (was Re: Large writablevariables)

On 2019-Jan-09, Tom Lane wrote:

> We could make the index table still smaller if we wanted to reassign
> a couple dozen high-numbered functions down to lower OIDs, but I dunno
> if it's worth the trouble.  It certainly isn't from a performance
> standpoint, because those unused entry ranges will never be touched
> in normal usage; but it'd make the server executable a couple KB smaller.

Or two couples KB smaller, if we abandoned the idea that pg_proc OIDs
must not collide with those in any other catalog, and we renumbered all
functions to start at OID 1 or so.  duplicate_oids would complain about
that, though, I suppose ... and nobody who has ever hardcoded a function
OID would love this idea much.

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