Re: Why does pg_dump set default_with_oids to true?

On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 11:04 -0400, Kynn Jones wrote:
> I've noticed that the dumps generated by pg_dump set the parameter
> default_with_oids to true in various places (separated by setting it
> back to false in-between).
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> This happens even for databases whose creation and maintenance did not
> involve any explicit setting of this parameter.
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> The documentation deprecates setting this variable to true.  Why does
> pg_dump do it?

It is picking up objects that have OIDS.

Joshua D. Drake

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> TIA!
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> Kynn
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