Re: warning missing

Gaetano Mendola wrote:

> Tom Lane wrote:
> 
>> Gaetano Mendola <mendola@bigfoot.com> writes:
>>
>>> I think a warning is missing if I create a table without OIDS that
>>> inherits from a table with oids:
>>
>>
>>
>>> don't you think a warning shall to be raised here ?
>>
>>
>>
>> Nope ... this is not different from the behavior for merging duplicate
>> column definitions.  You get an OID column if the child table definition
>> *or* any parent table requests OIDs.
> 
> 
> Mmm, you are not convincing me, don't we break the principle of minor 
> surprise?
> 
> I mean if you duplicate a column name that column is present on the 
> inherited
> table, but if I say: I don't want the column OID and I found it,  this then
> surprise me.

Peter, what do you think about it ?


Regards
Gaetano Mendola