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    Reduce the range of OIDs reserved for genbki.pl. · a4390abe
    Tom Lane authored
    Commit ab596105 increased FirstBootstrapObjectId from 12000 to 13000,
    but we've had some push-back about that.  It's worrisome to reduce the
    daylight between there and FirstNormalObjectId, because the number of
    OIDs consumed during initdb for collation objects is hard to predict.
    
    We can improve the situation by abandoning the assumption that these
    OIDs must be globally unique.  It should be sufficient for them to be
    unique per-catalog.  (Any code that's unhappy about that is broken
    anyway, since no more than per-catalog uniqueness can be guaranteed
    once the OID counter wraps around.)  With that change, the largest OID
    assigned during genbki.pl (starting from a base of 10000) is a bit
    under 11000.  This allows reverting FirstBootstrapObjectId to 12000
    with reasonable confidence that that will be sufficient for many years
    to come.
    
    We are not, at this time, abandoning the expectation that
    hand-assigned OIDs (below 10000) are globally unique.  Someday that'll
    likely be necessary, but the need seems years away still.
    
    This is late for v14, but it seems worth doing it now so that
    downstream software doesn't have to deal with the consequences of
    a change in FirstBootstrapObjectId.  In any case, we already
    bought into forcing an initdb for beta2, so another catversion
    bump won't hurt.
    
    Discussion: https://postgr.es/m/1665197.1622065382@sss.pgh.pa.us
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