Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
When using pg_dump to dump a postgres database that is being used as the back-end for a Django application. Do I need to use the “-o” flag (dump object identifiers)?
Assuming you are using Postgres 8.1 or greater, then no – not unless you are tying into your system tables somehow. OIDs in postgres are only used for system tables unless
WITH OIDSis specified when the user table is created.OIDs in postgres docs.
WITH OIDSused to be the default in Postgres 8.0 and prior, but that has been switched in Postgres 8.1.