Re: warning missing

From: Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: warning missing
Date: 2004-06-28 11:13:21
Message-ID: cbougi$55c$1@floppy.pyrenet.fr
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Gaetano Mendola wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>> Gaetano Mendola <mendola(at)bigfoot(dot)com> writes:
>>
>>> I think a warning is missing if I create a table without OIDS that
>>> inherits from a table with oids:
>>
>>
>>
>>> don't you think a warning shall to be raised here ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Nope ... this is not different from the behavior for merging duplicate
>> column definitions. You get an OID column if the child table definition
>> *or* any parent table requests OIDs.
>
>
> Mmm, you are not convincing me, don't we break the principle of minor
> surprise?
>
> I mean if you duplicate a column name that column is present on the
> inherited
> table, but if I say: I don't want the column OID and I found it, this then
> surprise me.

Peter, what do you think about it ?

Regards
Gaetano Mendola

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