Re: introduce "default_use_oids" - Mailing list pgsql-patches

From Christopher Kings-Lynne
Subject Re: introduce "default_use_oids"
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Msg-id 3FCC35FC.4070107@familyhealth.com.au
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In response to Re: introduce "default_use_oids"  (Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@dcc.uchile.cl>)
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> Hum, sorry to be late, but wasn't one of the supposed strenghts of
> pg_dump supposed to be that you could take a dump and load it on a
> different RDBMS?  I haven't tried it so I don't know if it works, but
> this patch takes out the ability to do that -- no one else will accept
> WITH/WITHOUT OIDS, so the dump will have to be modified.  Is a switch
> provided to stop the emission of those modifiers?

There are so many other incompatibilities in our dumps anyway!

Anyway, our first loyalty is to PostgreSQL...

If someone can't run a sed script to 's/WITH OIDS//g', then they're
going to have a LOT of problems...

Chris



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