Re: introduce "default_use_oids"

This has been saved for the 7.5 release:

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Neil Conway wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-10-10 at 05:56, Manfred Koizar wrote:
> > On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 20:00:22 -0400, Neil Conway <neilc(at)samurai(dot)com>
> > wrote:
> > >This patch adds a new GUC var, "default_use_oids"
> >
> > Shouldn't it be honoured by CREATE TABLE AS SELECT ... ?
>
> Good catch. I've attached an updated patch. I also included a few
> improvements to the docs.
>
> I think it would be a good idea to extend CREATE TABLE AS to allow WITH
> OIDS and WITHOUT OIDS to be specified, so that it provides a better
> option for people who need OIDs in their CREATE TABLE AS-generated
> tables than manually setting the default_use_oids GUC var (CREATE TABLE
> AS should also accept ON COMMIT ..., for that matter). But implementing
> this will require changing the internal representation of CREATE TABLE
> AS to be something more than just a wrapper over SelectStmt, I believe.
> I haven't made this change in the attached patch, but I'll probably do
> it before 7.5 is released. Any comments?
>
> -Neil
>

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