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This commit adds a Perl script renumber_oids.pl, which can reassign a range of manually-assigned OIDs to someplace else by modifying OID fields of the catalog *.dat files and OID-assigning macros in the catalog *.h files. Up to now, we've encouraged new patches that need manually-assigned OIDs to use OIDs just above the range of existing OIDs. Predictably, this leads to patches stepping on each others' toes, as whichever one gets committed first creates an OID conflict that other patch author(s) have to resolve manually. With the availability of renumber_oids.pl, we can eliminate a lot of this hassle. The new project policy, therefore, is: * Encourage new patches to use high OIDs (the documentation suggests choosing a block of OIDs at random in 8000..9999). * After feature freeze in each development cycle, run renumber_oids.pl to move all such OIDs down to lower numbers, thus freeing the high OID range for the next development cycle. This plan should greatly reduce the risk of OID collisions between concurrently-developed patches. Also, if such a collision happens anyway, we have the option to resolve it without much effort by doing an off-schedule OID renumbering to get the first-committed patch out of the way. Or a patch author could use renumber_oids.pl to change their patch's assignments without much pain. This approach does put a premium on not hard-wiring any OID values in places where renumber_oids.pl and genbki.pl can't fix them. Project practice in that respect seems to be pretty good already, but a follow-on patch will sand down some rough edges. John Naylor and Tom Lane, per an idea of Peter Geoghegan's Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/CAH2-WzmMTGMcPuph4OvsO7Ykut0AOCF_i-=eaochT0dd2BN9CQ@mail.gmail.com
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