Re: OIDs as keys - Mailing list pgsql-performance

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: OIDs as keys
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Msg-id 032301c2de14$c64ccf70$6500a8c0@fhp.internal
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In response to Re: OIDs as keys  (Richard Huxton <dev@archonet.com>)
Responses Re: OIDs as keys  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
List pgsql-performance
> daniel alvarez <d-alvarez@gmx.de> writes:
> > Why should user-defined tables have OIDs by default?
>
> At this point it's just for historical reasons.  There actually is a
> proposal on the table to flip the default to WITHOUT OIDS, but so far
> it's not been accepted because of worries about compatibility.  See
> the pghackers archives a few weeks back.

Shall I include a patch to pg_dump that will explicitly set WITH OIDS when I
submit this SET STORAGE dumping patch?

Chris



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