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authorBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2003-12-01 22:08:02 +0000
committerBruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>2003-12-01 22:08:02 +0000
commit7ce9b7c0d8c8dbefc04978765422f760dcf3788c (patch)
treea45d3e6a01487c3a816f73ba5428d3ba64347a55 /doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
parente7ca8674858f03a1bd6222bdb4de3d829cffbcc4 (diff)
This patch adds a new GUC var, "default_with_oids", which follows the
proposal for eventually deprecating OIDs on user tables that I posted earlier to pgsql-hackers. pg_dump now always specifies WITH OIDS or WITHOUT OIDS when dumping a table. The documentation has been updated. Neil Conway
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diff --git a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
index 9662d9b02f4..d10be7f2905 100644
--- a/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
+++ b/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<!--
-$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml,v 1.63 2003/11/29 19:51:38 pgsql Exp $
+$PostgreSQL: pgsql/doc/src/sgml/ref/alter_table.sgml,v 1.64 2003/12/01 22:07:58 momjian Exp $
PostgreSQL documentation
-->
@@ -149,6 +149,12 @@ ALTER TABLE <replaceable class="PARAMETER">name</replaceable>
of the OID are kept indefinitely. This is semantically similar
to the <literal>DROP COLUMN</literal> process.
</para>
+
+ <para>
+ Note that there is no variant of <command>ALTER TABLE</command>
+ that allows OIDs to be restored to a table once they have been
+ removed.
+ </para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>