On Tue, Apr 8, 2014 at 05:29:45PM -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > If we ignore backward compatibility, then "Has OIDs" and "Identity
> > Replica" are similar. One thing that strongly (for me) supports not
> > always printing them is that I expect more people will be confused by
> > the mention of OIDs or "Identity Replica" than will actually care about
> > these features. For example, if we always printed "Child tables: 0",
> > more people would be confused than helped.
>
> This is a good argument, actually: these fields are not only noise for
> most people, but confusing if you don't know the feature they are
> talking about.
Let me put it this way: I didn't know what "Identity Replica" meant
when I saw it in psql. Now, some might say that is expected, but still. ;-)
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