Re: == PostgreSQL Weekly News - March 29th 2004 == - Mailing list pgsql-announce

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: == PostgreSQL Weekly News - March 29th 2004 ==
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In response to == PostgreSQL Weekly News - March 29th 2004 ==  (Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net>)
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Robert Treat <xzilla@users.sourceforge.net> writes:
> ... The "Alter Table Set Without OIDS" command was removed
> in favor of making "Alter Table Drop Column" able to handle OID
> columns.

Small correction: SET WITHOUT OIDS was *not* removed.  What was removed
was the separate implementation it used to have.  Internally it now just
does a "DROP COLUMN oid".

(Not your fault, there was some confusion on this point on the
pgsql-committers list...)

            regards, tom lane

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