Andrew Dunstan wrote: > > > > I have two open issues. First, CSV should support WITH OIDS, no? > > > > Why on earth would you want to? OIDs only have emaning to postgresql. > Dumping to/from CSVs should not be seen as an alternative to Postgresql's > normal text or binary file formats. Rather, it is a way of exchanging > data with other programs that can't conveniently read or write those > formats, but can read/write CSVs. I expect the data to be making a one > way trip. OIDs make no sense to those other programs. > > > For all those reasons I disallowed use of WITH OIDS for CSV mode. > > If you think that we should have it, it will be simple enough to do. It > just strikes me as a very odd thing to do.
While doing OIDs seems atypical, it seems like a reasonable thing that CSV should be able to do. Basically, I see no reason to disable it. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org
