Thread: Re: [CORE] Commit privs

Re: [CORE] Commit privs

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
> 
> > Hmmm.  Robert spoke to an "IP" attorney off the record who felt
> > differently.  I think it would really be to our benefit to get an
> > attorney to go "on the record" about this (which means a fee,
> > unfortunately).  Your opinion vs. my opinion doesn't really mean much
> > since neither of us is a copyright & patent attorney.
> 
> One thing to note heavily here though is that the project is not in the
> US, so any attorney we deal with will have to be able to know how to deal
> with International Law, and not just US (which, I suspect, will probably
> be even pricier) ... there are several projects that don't maintain 'US
> mirrors' for reasons such as this, maybe we should trim off our US mirrors
> and let ppl download from the International mirrors instead ...

Yes, I see that now:CREATE TABLE x (    y integer) WITH OIDS;

We need a solution to this.  One idea is to use SET to change the
default_with_oids setting when a table changes characteristics.

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Re: [CORE] Commit privs

From
Bruce Momjian
Date:
Sorry for this posting.  I was trying to do too many things at once.  I
have posted the WITH OID email to the proper thread.

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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> > On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > 
> > > Hmmm.  Robert spoke to an "IP" attorney off the record who felt
> > > differently.  I think it would really be to our benefit to get an
> > > attorney to go "on the record" about this (which means a fee,
> > > unfortunately).  Your opinion vs. my opinion doesn't really mean much
> > > since neither of us is a copyright & patent attorney.
> > 
> > One thing to note heavily here though is that the project is not in the
> > US, so any attorney we deal with will have to be able to know how to deal
> > with International Law, and not just US (which, I suspect, will probably
> > be even pricier) ... there are several projects that don't maintain 'US
> > mirrors' for reasons such as this, maybe we should trim off our US mirrors
> > and let ppl download from the International mirrors instead ...
> 
> Yes, I see that now:
>     
>     CREATE TABLE x (
>         y integer
>     ) WITH OIDS;
> 
> We need a solution to this.  One idea is to use SET to change the
> default_with_oids setting when a table changes characteristics.
> 
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