Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 3:50 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> AFAIK the agreed-on process is to do that once per release cycle.
>> Is there some reason why it needs to be done now?
> Did we ever actually document this process somewhere? I went looking
> for it some time ago and failed to find it (and eventually found the
> old email thread(s) around it, but that's not really documentation),
> but that could definitely be my searching....
Yeah, it's documented here:
https://www.postgresql.org/docs/devel/system-catalog-initial-data.html#SYSTEM-CATALOG-OID-ASSIGNMENT
and there is an entry in src/tools/RELEASE_CHANGES to remind us
to actually do the cleanup work.
regards, tom lane