I agree. I want to remove OIDs from heaps of our tables when we go to 7.3.
I'd rather not have to do it in the dump due to down time.
Chris
> -----Original Message-----
> From: pgsql-patches-owner@postgresql.org
> [mailto:pgsql-patches-owner@postgresql.org]On Behalf Of Neil Conway
> Sent: Thursday, 9 January 2003 10:58 AM
> To: Tom Lane
> Cc: Rod Taylor; PostgreSQL Patches
> Subject: Re: [PATCHES] ALTER TABLE .. SET WITH / WITHOUT OIDS
>
>
> On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 18:08, Tom Lane wrote:
> > I can see some value in the SET WITHOUT OIDS half of the patch, as this
> > gives a way of reclaiming space in a table that was unthinkingly created
> > with OIDs. But I'm not sure we should expend the code space to provide
> > just a one-way transformation.
>
> IMHO, it's still worth having this part of the patch, even if the
> transformation is only one-way.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Neil
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