* Euler Taveira (eu...@timbira.com.br) wrote: > On 27-03-2014 10:15, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > When we made OIDs optional, we added an oid status display to \d+: > > > > test=> \d+ test > > Table "public.test" > > Column | Type | Modifiers | Storage | Stats target | Description > > --------+---------+-----------+---------+--------------+------------- > > x | integer | | plain | | > > --> Has OIDs: no > > > > Do we want to continue displaying that OID line, or make it optional for > > cases where the value doesn't match default_with_oids? > > > That line is still important for those tables that have oids. Once a > while I see "with oids" set (mainly by mistake or misinformation).
I believe Bruce was suggesting to show it when it is set to *not* the
default, which strikes me as perfectly reasonable.
If the default is "without OIDs", then this will show on tables which
*have* OIDs. And vice-versa.
> The 8.0 (last version that have default_with_oids = on) is dead for more
> than 3 years. Is it time to remove the d_w_o or even announce to remove
> it in 2 releases?
I don't know that we need to drop the option...
> Regarding to remove the "Has OIDs" line, it seems that it is just noise
> since almost all tables does not have oids. However, if you remove
> that line you'll have to fix the regression tests and also can break
> third part extensions that use \d+ (we can live with that). If we agree
> to remove d_w_o, don't worry with that line because it will be removed soon.
I expect there are products which are still using it...
Thanks,
Stephen
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