Neil Conway writes: > > On the other hand, if we do do that then (a) pg_dump output > > becomes even less portable than it is now, and (b) upgraded databases > > will still have OIDs, which renders the "improved storage efficiency" > > argument a bit thin.
> Personally, I don't think (a) is that important (if it *is* important, > we're doing pretty poorly in that regard right now). It is important, and if you write your database in a portable fashion then it does a pretty good job at it. Some effort was put into 7.3 to make it so, and I would hate to abandon it. -- Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
