Re: WIP: fix SET WITHOUT OIDS, add SET WITH OIDS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: WIP: fix SET WITHOUT OIDS, add SET WITH OIDS
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Msg-id 16037.1234195971@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: WIP: fix SET WITHOUT OIDS, add SET WITH OIDS  (Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: WIP: fix SET WITHOUT OIDS, add SET WITH OIDS  (Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>)
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Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com> writes:
> But now that I learned that ALTER TABLE WITHOUT OIDS either causes bugs
> or requires table rewrite, it turned from minor annoyance to big annoyance.
> So I'd like have a reasonable path for getting rid of them, which we don't
> have currently.

We've had SET WITHOUT OIDS since 7.3 or thereabouts.  Anybody who hasn't
applied it in all that time either does not care, or actually needs the
OIDs and will be unhappy if we arbitrarily remove the feature.
        regards, tom lane


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