Re: deprecating the use of OIDs

On Mon, 2003-09-29 at 18:37, Tom Lane wrote:
> It doesn't seem to me that this really buys much.  What we really want
> is a way for a dump/reload to remove OIDs from tables that formerly had
> them; otherwise people will not easily be able to migrate their existing
> tables away from having OIDs.

Can't they just use ALTER TABLE ... WITHOUT OIDS?

> > ... and a single SET can apply to
> > multiple CREATE TABLEs.
> 
> Not unless you want partial pg_restores to break.

So is it worth doing this rather than WITH/WITHOUT OIDS, then?

-Neil