Re: change in behaviour? Is this a regression in function?

This will be fixed in 7.3.2.

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Gavin Atkinson wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> > Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> > > Tom Lane wrote:
> > >> So I guess the question at this point is do we want to flip-flop the
> > >> behavior yet again, or leave well enough alone?
> >
> > > I don't have a problem with making no oids the default. I just think
> > > CREATE TABLE and CREATE TABLE AS should behave similarly in terms of
> > > oids.
> >
> > Well, that is a good point. If we are going to change it back, I'd vote
> > for back-patching the change into 7.3.2 so as to minimize the exposure
> > of the current behavior.
> >
> > Any other opinions out there?
>
> I'm in favour of this, as it came as quite a suprise when my application
> stopped working and I spent quite a bit of time debugging it (I
> originally thought it was a configuration option difference). I like the
> idea of having WITH and WITHOUT OIDS options to CREATE TABLE AS as well -
> there have been quite a few times when I have not needed them. But, like
> CREATE TABLE, i think oids should be created by default.
>
> Gavin
>

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