Re: Any reason why the default_with_oids GUC is still there?

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
> On 9/20/10 10:59 PM, Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>> Backwards-compatibility? ;-) There hasn't been any pressing reason to
>> remove it.

> Any application which needed it (like OpenACS) just got broken when we
> removed add_missing_from.  Let alone the typecasting changes in 8.3.

Huh?  There's no reason to assume that those features are connected.

> Personally, I find removing GUCS to be a worthwhile goal in itself.  We
> have well over 200 now.

Usually we don't remove GUCs (or other backwards-compatibility features)
until there's some positive reason to do so.  I don't see one at the
moment for default_with_oids.  Reducing the length of the GUC list by
0.5% doesn't seem like an adequate reason for possibly breaking old apps.

Mind you, it wouldn't take a *big* reason to persuade me to remove it.
But bigger than that.
        regards, tom lane