Re: Killing OIDs

On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:41 AM, Steve Crawford
<scrawford@pinpointresearch.com> wrote:
> I'm about to deal with an upgrade of a server running 7.4. I have checked
> with the developers and they are not using OIDs so I'd like to remove them
> so they aren't carried forward to 8.3.
>
> My plan is to do the OID removal on 7.4. I can get a script with:
> SELECT
>   'ALTER TABLE ' || relname || ' SET WITHOUT OIDS;'
> FROM
>   pg_class
> WHERE
>   relkind='r' and
>   relowner != 1 and
>   relhasoids;
>
> Before I pull the trigger, I figured I'd post and find out if anyone sees
> any feet in the way.

Since 8.3 creates tables WITHOUT OIDS by default, I'd think just
dumping from 7.4 to 8.3 with 8.3's pg_dump should do the trick.  Or am
I missing something?