From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
Cc: | Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, David Johnston <polobo(at)yahoo(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: psql \d+ and oid display |
Date: | 2014-03-29 22:16:19 |
Message-ID: | 10486.1396131379@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> writes:
> Are you saying most people like "Has OIDs: yes", or the idea of just
> displaying _a_ line if there are OIDs? Based on default_with_oids,
> perhaps we should display "With OIDs".
> I agree it is no unanimous. I am curious how large the majority has to
> be to change a psql display value.
What I actually suggested was not *changing* the line when it's to be
displayed, but suppressing it in the now-standard case where there's no
OIDs.
Personally I find the argument that backwards compatibility must be
preserved to be pretty bogus; we have no hesitation in changing the
output of \d anytime we add a new feature. So I don't think there's
a good compatibility reason why the line has to be spelled exactly
"Has OIDs: yes" --- but there is a consistency reason, which is that
everything else we print in this part of the \d output is of the form
"label: info".
regards, tom lane
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