Re: OIDs as keys

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>, daniel alvarez <d-alvarez(at)gmx(dot)de>, Richard Huxton <dev(at)archonet(dot)com>, PostgreSQL Performance <pgsql-performance(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: OIDs as keys
Date: 2003-03-06 21:13:12
Message-ID: 200303062113.h26LDCP03630@candle.pha.pa.us
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com> writes:
> > Rather than specifying the use of OIDs by WITH OIDS clauses for each
> > CREATE TABLE in a dump, couldn't we do it by adding a SET command that
> > toggles the 'use_oids' GUC option prior to every CREATE TABLE?
>
> Seems better than cluttering the CREATE TABLE itself with them, I guess.

It would be good to somehow SET the use_oids GUC value on restore start,
and just use SET when the table is different than the default, but then
there is no mechanism to do that when you restore a single table.

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