Re: Why is specifying oids = false multiple times in create table is silently ignored? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Michael Paquier
Subject Re: Why is specifying oids = false multiple times in create table is silently ignored?
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In response to Why is specifying oids = false multiple times in create table is silently ignored?  (Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: Why is specifying oids = false multiple times in create table is silently ignored?  (Bharath Rupireddy <bharath.rupireddyforpostgres@gmail.com>)
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On Wed, Apr 07, 2021 at 04:00:46PM +0530, Bharath Rupireddy wrote:
> And also, the commit 578b229718 talks about removing "with (oids =
> false)" someday. Is it the time now to remove that and error out with
> "unrecognized parameter "oids""?

Nope, and I think that it will remain around for some time.  Keeping
around the code necessary to silence WITH OIDS has no real maintenance
cost, and removing it could easily break applications.  So there is
little gain in cleaning up that, and a lot of potential loss for
users.
--
Michael

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