| From: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net> |
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| To: | Josh Berkus <josh(at)agliodbs(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Heikki Linnakangas <heikki(dot)linnakangas(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Any reason why the default_with_oids GUC is still there? |
| Date: | 2010-09-21 22:04:42 |
| Message-ID: | 4C992BFA.2050204@dunslane.net |
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On 09/21/2010 05:15 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:
> On 9/20/10 10:59 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> On 21/09/10 04:18, Josh Berkus wrote:
>>> ... or did we just forget to remove it?
>> Backwards-compatibility? ;-) There hasn't been any pressing reason to
>> remove it.
> Any application which needed it (like OpenACS) just got broken when we
> removed add_missing_from. Let alone the typecasting changes in 8.3.
Umm, no. One of our customers has sponsored work to allow OpenACS to run
on 9.0[1] (they REALLY want to be able to use hot standby) ;-) One of my
tasks this week is to set up 9.0 for them on a VM where they will test
these changes. But default_with_oids is really quite a different issue.
cheers
andrew
[1] see <http://openacs.org/forums/message-view?message_id=3468735>
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