Re: Any reason why the default_with_oids GUC is still there?

On 09/21/2010 05:15 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 9/20/10 10:59 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> On 21/09/10 04:18, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> ... or did we just forget to remove it?
>> Backwards-compatibility? ;-) There hasn't been any pressing reason to
>> remove it.
> Any application which needed it (like OpenACS) just got broken when we
> removed add_missing_from.  Let alone the typecasting changes in 8.3.


Umm, no. One of our customers has sponsored work to allow OpenACS to run 
on 9.0[1] (they REALLY want to be able to use hot standby) ;-) One of my 
tasks this week is to set up 9.0 for them on a VM where they will test 
these changes. But default_with_oids is really quite a different issue.

cheers

andrew


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