Re: warning missing - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gaetano Mendola
Subject Re: warning missing
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Msg-id 40D8BFA6.1070104@bigfoot.com
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In response to Re: warning missing  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:

> Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com> writes:
> 
>>I think a warning is missing if I create a table without OIDS that
>>inherits from a table with oids:
> 
> 
>>don't you think a warning shall to be raised here ?
> 
> 
> Nope ... this is not different from the behavior for merging duplicate
> column definitions.  You get an OID column if the child table definition
> *or* any parent table requests OIDs.

Mmm, you are not convincing me, don't we break the principle of minor surprise?

I mean if you duplicate a column name that column is present on the inherited
table, but if I say: I don't want the column OID and I found it,  this then
surprise me.


Regards
Gaetano Mendola




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