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.
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Msg-id 20190114233714.mi77d2p25juwpyjx@alap3.anarazel.de
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In response to Re: pgsql: Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.  (Amit Khandekar <amitdkhan.pg@gmail.com>)
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Hi,

On 2019-01-07 17:03:20 +0530, Amit Khandekar wrote:
> On Sat, 5 Jan 2019 at 02:09, Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de> wrote:
> > 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".
> 
> Attached is a patch that does this.

Thanks!  I've pushed this, after some minor editorialization (hiding the
GUC, shortened description, shortened error message).

Regards,

Andres


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