Hi,

What is the current way of getting the last built-in oid?

I looked at the source of pg_dump, and it does this:

SELECT datlastsysoid from pg_database where datname = 'dbname'

But as far as I can tell, the datlastsysoid field does not exist in
pg_database.

What gives?

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Christopher Kings-Lynne
Family Health Network (ACN 089 639 243)


Fri, 24 Nov 2000 11:27:19 +0800
"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
last built-in oid
Ah.  What about in 7.0.3 and below?

Basically this because I am attempting to select all built-in functions.  I
would like it to be backwards compatible, if at all possible.

Chris

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> At 11:27 24/11/00 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> >
> >SELECT datlastsysoid from pg_database where datname = 'dbname'
> >
> >But as far as I can tell, the datlastsysoid field does not exist in
> >pg_database.
> >
>
> If you build from CVS and do an initdb, you will find datlastsysoid should
> exist...
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Fri, 24 Nov 2000 11:41:34 +0800
"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
RE: last built-in oid
At 11:27 24/11/00 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
>SELECT datlastsysoid from pg_database where datname = 'dbname'
>
>But as far as I can tell, the datlastsysoid field does not exist in
>pg_database.
>

If you build from CVS and do an initdb, you will find datlastsysoid should
exist...


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Fri, 24 Nov 2000 14:47:04 +1100
Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
Re: last built-in oid
"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> Ah.  What about in 7.0.3 and below?

There is no good way --- if there were, we'd not have bothered to invent
datlastsysoid.  pg_dump used to use the OID of the template1 database
as an estimate of the last built-in OID.  This was wrong to begin with,
and is completely untenable in 7.1 (template1's OID is now 1).

> Basically this because I am attempting to select all built-in
> functions.

If you only care about functions then it's probably possible to
hard-wire an assumption that system functions have OIDs < 16384.
Right now all built-in functions have manually-assigned OIDs,
so that works.  But I wouldn't want to promise that it'll work
forever.  It already doesn't work for aggregates, for example
(were you including aggregates in "functions"?).

			regards, tom lane

Thu, 23 Nov 2000 23:54:16 -0500
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Re: last built-in oid 