Re: Killing OIDs - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Scott Marlowe
Subject Re: Killing OIDs
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Msg-id dcc563d10902111140o7f7c1305n9a4747481bcecd58@mail.gmail.com
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In response to Killing OIDs  (Steve Crawford <scrawford@pinpointresearch.com>)
Responses Re: Killing OIDs  (Raymond O'Donnell <rod@iol.ie>)
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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Steve Crawford
<scrawford@pinpointresearch.com> wrote:
> I'm about to deal with an upgrade of a server running 7.4. I have checked
> with the developers and they are not using OIDs so I'd like to remove them
> so they aren't carried forward to 8.3.
>
> My plan is to do the OID removal on 7.4. I can get a script with:
> SELECT
>   'ALTER TABLE ' || relname || ' SET WITHOUT OIDS;'
> FROM
>   pg_class
> WHERE
>   relkind='r' and
>   relowner != 1 and
>   relhasoids;
>
> Before I pull the trigger, I figured I'd post and find out if anyone sees
> any feet in the way.

Since 8.3 creates tables WITHOUT OIDS by default, I'd think just
dumping from 7.4 to 8.3 with 8.3's pg_dump should do the trick.  Or am
I missing something?

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