Magnus Hagander <[email protected]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 5, 2020 at 3:50 PM Tom Lane <[email protected]> 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
