Re: deprecating the use of OIDs

From: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: deprecating the use of OIDs
Date: 2003-09-29 22:41:42
Message-ID: 1064875302.22627.2.camel@tokyo
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On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:37, Tom Lane wrote:
> It doesn't seem to me that this really buys much. What we really want
> is a way for a dump/reload to remove OIDs from tables that formerly had
> them; otherwise people will not easily be able to migrate their existing
> tables away from having OIDs.

Can't they just use ALTER TABLE ... WITHOUT OIDS?

> > ... and a single SET can apply to
> > multiple CREATE TABLEs.
>
> Not unless you want partial pg_restores to break.

So is it worth doing this rather than WITH/WITHOUT OIDS, then?

-Neil

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