On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 8:17 PM Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> 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.
Ha! Thanks.
I did find the RELEASE_CHANGES ones, but for some reason managed to
miss the other one.
--
Magnus Hagander
Me: https://www.hagander.net/
Work: https://www.redpill-linpro.com/