Re: remove WITHOUT OIDS syntax for v19 - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Junwang Zhao
Subject Re: remove WITHOUT OIDS syntax for v19
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Msg-id CAEG8a3JM7_XHzYU_YC1cmKJGCBQwPZqrWJ3r0-jQ2L=-D_DjZQ@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Re: remove WITHOUT OIDS syntax for v19  (Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM Nathan Bossart
<nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 11:06:11PM +0800, Junwang Zhao wrote:
> > WITH OIDS was removed in v12, I'm wondering if we could remove the
> > WITHOUT OIDS support for v19.
>
> AFAICT this would produce less helpful error messages and might even break
> applications, which I don't think is worth it to save ~90 lines.

Yeah, I agree this might break some legacy applications. I don't know
if we have some strategy/policy for removing such legacy syntax, but
do we want to keep this forever?

>
> --
> nathan



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Junwang Zhao



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