Re: Why is specifying oids = false multiple times in create table is silently ignored?

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021 at 4:20 PM Michael Paquier <michael(at)paquier(dot)xyz> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 04:00:46PM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> > And also, the commit 578b229718 talks about removing "with (oids =
> > false)" someday. Is it the time now to remove that and error out with
> > "unrecognized parameter "oids""?
>
> Nope, and I think that it will remain around for some time. Keeping
> around the code necessary to silence WITH OIDS has no real maintenance
> cost, and removing it could easily break applications. So there is
> little gain in cleaning up that, and a lot of potential loss for
> users.

I agree to not remove "with (oids = false)". At least shouldn't we fix
the "create table ... with (oids = false, oids = false ....)" case,
just to be consistent with other options?

With Regards,
Bharath Rupireddy.
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