Re: psql \d+ and oid display

On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>
> Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us> writes:
> > On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 02:54:26PM -0400, Stephen Frost wrote:
> >> I believe Bruce was suggesting to show it when it is set to *not* the
> >> default, which strikes me as perfectly reasonable.
>
> > We seem to be split on the idea of having "Has OIDs" display only when
> > the oid status of the table does not match the default_with_oids
> > default.
>
> FWIW, I think that having the display depend on what that GUC is set to
> is a seriously *bad* idea.  It will mean that you don't actually know,
> when looking at the output of \d, whether the table has OIDs or not.
>
> I could get behind a proposal to suppress the line when there are not
> OIDs, full stop; that is, we print either "Has OIDs: yes" or nothing.
> But I think this patch just makes things even more surprising when
> default_with_oids is turned on.
>

Something like the attached ?

Grettings,

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