Re: introduce "default_use_oids"

Bruce Momjian writes:

> Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
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> http://momjian.postgresql.org/cgi-bin/pgpatches
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> I will try to apply it within the next 48 hours.

This parameter ought to be called "default_with_oids", to reflect the
actual effect.

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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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