Re: introduce "default_use_oids"

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: introduce "default_use_oids"
Date: 2003-12-02 06:49:32
Message-ID: 3FCC35FC.4070107@familyhealth.com.au
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> Hum, sorry to be late, but wasn't one of the supposed strenghts of
> pg_dump supposed to be that you could take a dump and load it on a
> different RDBMS? I haven't tried it so I don't know if it works, but
> this patch takes out the ability to do that -- no one else will accept
> WITH/WITHOUT OIDS, so the dump will have to be modified. Is a switch
> provided to stop the emission of those modifiers?

There are so many other incompatibilities in our dumps anyway!

Anyway, our first loyalty is to PostgreSQL...

If someone can't run a sed script to 's/WITH OIDS//g', then they're
going to have a LOT of problems...

Chris

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