Re: [CORE] Commit privs

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [CORE] Commit privs
Date: 2003-12-01 23:04:47
Message-ID: 200312012304.hB1N4lB10311@candle.pha.pa.us
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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
>
> > Hmmm. Robert spoke to an "IP" attorney off the record who felt
> > differently. I think it would really be to our benefit to get an
> > attorney to go "on the record" about this (which means a fee,
> > unfortunately). Your opinion vs. my opinion doesn't really mean much
> > since neither of us is a copyright & patent attorney.
>
> One thing to note heavily here though is that the project is not in the
> US, so any attorney we deal with will have to be able to know how to deal
> with International Law, and not just US (which, I suspect, will probably
> be even pricier) ... there are several projects that don't maintain 'US
> mirrors' for reasons such as this, maybe we should trim off our US mirrors
> and let ppl download from the International mirrors instead ...

Yes, I see that now:

CREATE TABLE x (
y integer
) WITH OIDS;

We need a solution to this. One idea is to use SET to change the
default_with_oids setting when a table changes characteristics.

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