Re: Release notes on "reserved OIDs"

On Wed, Sep  4, 2019 at 02:43:15AM -0700, Andres Freund wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 2019-08-30 22:44:53 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 12:35:09PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
> > > > Hmm.  I wonder if this item really belongs in the release notes at all.
> > > > My view is that this was interim policy, not necessarily a permanent
> > > > thing; and it's oriented strictly towards PG developers rather than end
> > > > users or even fork-developers.
> > > 
> > > I think it's the sort of thing that we sometimes cover in the
> > > "source code" changes of the release notes.  But yeah, 09568ec3d's
> > > idea was pretty much fully superseded by a6417078c, so if we're
> > > going to document anything it should be the latter not the former.
> > 
> > OK, sure.  I was just basing the release notes on this commit text:
> > 
> >     Add a note suggesting that oids in forks should be assigned in the
> >     9000-9999 range.
> 
> But how do you get from forks in that sentence from the commit message
> (or the source, which says " with 9000-9999 tentatively reserved for
> forks"), to the range being for "external extensions"? Those are very
> different things imo?

I conflated forks and extensions in my head because they both are
external efforts that integrate with Postgres.

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