Re: remove WITHOUT OIDS syntax for v19
Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>
From: Junwang Zhao <zhjwpku@gmail.com>
To: Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com>
Cc: PostgreSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers@lists.postgresql.org>
Date: 2025-07-16T00:12:53Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 11:06:11PM +0800, Junwang Zhao wrote: > > WITH OIDS was removed in v12, I'm wondering if we could remove the > > WITHOUT OIDS support for v19. > > AFAICT this would produce less helpful error messages and might even break > applications, which I don't think is worth it to save ~90 lines. Yeah, I agree this might break some legacy applications. I don't know if we have some strategy/policy for removing such legacy syntax, but do we want to keep this forever? > > -- > nathan -- Regards Junwang Zhao