Re: pgsql: Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.

Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>

From: Andres Freund <andres@anarazel.de>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2019-01-04T20:39:26Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Hi,

On 2019-01-03 13:40:42 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> I noticed that this patch has broken restores of existing dump files:
> 
> psql:testbed.public.backup:82: ERROR:  unrecognized configuration parameter "default_with_oids"
> 
> Quite aside from the fact that this won't work if the user tries to
> restore in single-transaction or no-error mode, this is really really
> unhelpful because it's impossible to tell whether the error is
> ignorable or not, except by digging through the dump file.
> 
> What you should do is restore that GUC, but add a check-hook that throws
> an error for an attempt to set it to "true".

Makes sense, I (or a colleague) will look into that next week. Wanna get my
head out of pluggable storage first...

Greetings,

Andres Freund


Commits

  1. Remove line duplicated during conflict resolution.

  2. Re-add default_with_oids GUC to avoid breaking old dump files.

  3. Remove WITH OIDS support, change oid catalog column visibility.