Re: WIP: fix SET WITHOUT OIDS, add SET WITH OIDS - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

I don't understand what's wrong with the existing setup where DROP  
OIDS is a free operation. And the space is cleaned up later when the  
tuple is next written.
 It seems exactly equivalent to how we handle DROP COLUMN where the  
natt field of the tuple disagrees with the tuple descriptor and any  
additional columns are implicitly null.

-- 
Greg


On 8 Feb 2009, at 23:12, David Fetter <david@fetter.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 08, 2009 at 11:51:22AM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>>
>> Now, if you want to argue that we should get rid of SET WITHOUT OIDS
>> altogether,
>
> +1 for removing it altogether.  Row OIDs are and ugly wart :P
>
> Cheers,
> David.
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