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<p>Generally you should not be querying the slim tables (nodes, ways, and rels). You cannot depend on them existing, as they depend on import settings and are internal to osm2pgsql and not structured to be easy for other applications to query.</p>
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<p>To clarify, are you suggesting changes to the nodes, ways, and relations tables, or changes to the rendering tables?</p>

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