Re: OIDs as keys

Tom Lane wrote:
> Neil Conway <neilc@samurai.com> writes:
> > Rather than specifying the use of OIDs by WITH OIDS clauses for each
> > CREATE TABLE in a dump, couldn't we do it by adding a SET command that
> > toggles the 'use_oids' GUC option prior to every CREATE TABLE?
>
> Seems better than cluttering the CREATE TABLE itself with them, I guess.

It would be good to somehow SET the use_oids GUC value on restore start,
and just use SET when the table is different than the default, but then
there is no mechanism to do that when you restore a single table.

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