Re: pgsql: Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog columnvisibility. - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andres Freund
Subject Re: pgsql: Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog columnvisibility.
Date
Msg-id 20190104203926.evck47fge5ugjwh7@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: pgsql: Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: pgsql: Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.  (Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

On 2019-01-03 13:40:42 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I noticed that this patch has broken restores of existing dump files:
> 
> psql:testbed.public.backup:82: ERROR:  unrecognized configuration parameter "default_with_oids"
> 
> Quite aside from the fact that this won't work if the user tries to
> restore in single-transaction or no-error mode, this is really really
> unhelpful because it's impossible to tell whether the error is
> ignorable or not, except by digging through the dump file.
> 
> What you should do is restore that GUC, but add a check-hook that throws
> an error for an attempt to set it to "true".

Makes sense, I (or a colleague) will look into that next week. Wanna get my
head out of pluggable storage first...

Greetings,

Andres Freund


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