Re: psql \d+ and oid display

Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> If we ignore backward compatibility, then "Has OIDs" and "Identity
> Replica" are similar.  One thing that strongly (for me) supports not
> always printing them is that I expect more people will be confused by
> the mention of OIDs or "Identity Replica" than will actually care about
> these features.  For example, if we always printed "Child tables: 0",
> more people would be confused than helped.

This is a good argument, actually: these fields are not only noise for
most people, but confusing if you don't know the feature they are
talking about.
        regards, tom lane