Re: ALTER TABLE .. < ADD | DROP > OIDS

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>, Pgsql Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ALTER TABLE .. < ADD | DROP > OIDS
Date: 2002-12-06 05:08:02
Message-ID: 200212060508.gB6582a13580@candle.pha.pa.us
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> OK, patch applied and tested.

Sorry, wrong email. I meant to say that his previous ALTER DOMAIN patch
had been applied with the new file now supplied.

>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Rod Taylor wrote:
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> > I wish to create an alter command which will allow a table to have OIDs
> > added or removed.
> >
> >
> > The tricky part appears to be changing the tuples themselves. I believe
> > if I pull the same trick that cluster does (create new file, copy
> > tuples, etc) it can be done fairly easily.
> >
> > First, set up pg_class appropriately (oid flag).
> >
> > Second, copy out tuples from oldfile to newfile, running a
> > heap_deformtuple() -> heap_formtuple() process on each. Since
> > heap_deformtuple only deals with positive numbered attributes
> > (non-system attributes) this should be safe to do on a mis-configured
> > relation. heap_formtuple completes the dirty work of setting up the OID
> > column appropriately.
> >
> > --
> > Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
> >
> > PGP Key: http://www.rbt.ca/rbtpub.asc
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