Re: introduce "default_use_oids"

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>
Cc: Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)dcc(dot)uchile(dot)cl>, PostgreSQL Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: introduce "default_use_oids"
Date: 2003-12-03 01:46:41
Message-ID: 3FCD4081.7090507@familyhealth.com.au
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> If I want to develop a portable application or I want to port an
> application, then I am of course only going to use portable constructs,
> that is, tables and views, and possibly sequences. I'm not talking theory
> here -- I've actually done it and made several changes to pg_dump along
> the way to make the output portable. This is an actual feature that is
> being destroyed.

OK.

> I'm sure there are other ways to phase out OIDs in dumps. For example, we
> could set the default mode at the top (easily deleted, much safer than
> running a global search and replace) and then add WITH/WITHOUT OIDS only
> to those tables that deviate from the default.

Ok, more thought is required then.

Chris

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