Never seen a negative OID before. This is a first-class "crime scene"!
... attrelid=-1519044407::oid ... ... rel.oid = -1519044407::oid ...
#Facts
###0.
2^32 - 1519044407 = 2775922889
And we have verified that OID 2775922889
indeed exists in your DB. Tests:
SELECT * FROM pg_class WHERE oid = 2775922889;
SELECT * FROM pg_class WHERE oid = '-1519044407';
SELECT * FROM pg_class WHERE relname = 'test_table';
###1. The manual about object identifier types:
The
oid
type is currently implemented as an unsigned four-byte integer.
###2. Postgres cast accepts signed integer anyway (!)
The Postgres I/O conversion from string literals, as well as the cast from integer
currently (pg 12) accepts negative integer values / literals as input anyway. Seems to just binary coerce a signed four-byte integer to unsigned four-byte integer and vice versa. Worth keeping in mind at least.
These, oddly, work:
test=# SELECT '-1519044407'::oid, '-1519044407'::int::oid;
oid | oid
------------+------------
2775922889 | 2775922889
Leads to different representation when casting to int
versus bigint
:
test=# SELECT (oid '2775922889')::int
test-# , (oid '2775922889')::bigint;
int4 | int8
-------------+------------
-1519044407 | 2775922889 -- !!
###3. The manual on Numeric Constants:
Note that any leading plus or minus sign is not actually considered part of the constant; it is an operator applied to the constant.
###4.
The cast operator ::
takes precedence over the unary minus operator (-
).
Conclusions
###1. I have never seen OID numbers in that range in system catalogs before, and I have been working with all kinds of big databases. You have a problem in your DB (cluster).
Improved with comments from Daniel Vérité:
Either you are burning OID numbers at an insane rate - already 2.8 billion numbers. ~ 1.5 billion remain until OID wraparound. Do you have any tables created with WITH OIDS
? (Nobody should any more. The feature is deprecated and removed in Postgres 12.) Or some code excessively creating / dropping new objects? The OID counter is per instance, not per database, so all dbs contribute to OID consumption.
There is a comment in the source code for GetNewOidWithIndex
for how OID collisions are dealt with after wraparound. Collisions incur a minor performance penalty.
Or somebody/something messed with your system catalogs.
###2. If the above query was generated by pgAdmin4, there is a serious bug.
Maybe that did not surface, yet, as nobody had OIDs in that range in the system catalogs, yet?
Seems like it operates with the integer representation of OIDs, and naively pastes those as numeric literals including the sign by mistake in queries. A string literal would work: '-1519044407'::oid
. Or parentheses would make it work: (-1519044407)::oid
.
But this does not:
-1519044407::oid
Because:
-
1519044407
is taken as numeric literal and initially coerced tointeger
.
-
- The cast operator
::
takes precedence over the sign operator-
and the integer is cast to the (wrong!!)oid
.
- The cast operator
-
- Finally, Postgres tries to apply the sign operator and, luckily, fails with the reported error message:
ERROR: operator does not exist: - oid at character 125
If it would not fail there, serious nonsense might occur.
db<>fiddle here
I have posted a note to the pgadmin-hackers list.
A related bug has been logged before. I added a note there, too. (Access only with Postgres community account.)