Neil Conway writes:
> > On the other hand, if we do do that then (a) pg_dump output
> > becomes even less portable than it is now, and (b) upgraded databases
> > will still have OIDs, which renders the "improved storage efficiency"
> > argument a bit thin.
> Personally, I don't think (a) is that important (if it *is* important,
> we're doing pretty poorly in that regard right now).
It is important, and if you write your database in a portable fashion then
it does a pretty good job at it. Some effort was put into 7.3 to make it
so, and I would hate to abandon it.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e@gmx.net