Doc patch: Document names of automatically created constraints and indexes
От | Karl O. Pinc |
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Тема | Doc patch: Document names of automatically created constraints and indexes |
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Msg-id | 1352737596.21373.1@mofo обсуждение исходный текст |
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Re: Doc patch: Document names of automatically created constraints and indexes
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Список | pgsql-hackers |
Hi, Attached is a patch (against head) which documents the name of the constraint and index created when using PRIMARY KEY with CREATE TABLE, and the name of the index created when using UNIQUE. I haven't read all the docs recently but I don't believe this is presently documented. It's unclear to me that this is the right approach but perhaps this will start a discussion that finds the right approach. The big problem I see is that these are somewhat of an implementation internal while at the same time being something that the user might have to concern themselves with. First, the constraint and index names are in the namespace used by the user so there is potential for collision with user-defined constraints and indexes. Second, the only way (I know of) to remove primary-key-ness is to drop the primary key constraint, by name. This lead me right into another thought: It would be nice to have ALTER TABLE be able to drop the primary key constraint. (Then the user would not need to know the name of the constraint related to primary-key-ness.) However, it is probably more useful to be able to drop the constraint (and attendant foreign key meta-information) separately from the unique index associated with the primary key, if for no other reason than index re-creation can be expensive and missing indexes make bad things happen. This patch is the improvement I could come up with. Someone else can decide to commit or reject, I don't believe I can contribute much more on this at this time. Regards, Karl <kop@meme.com> Free Software: "You don't pay back, you pay forward." -- Robert A. Heinlein
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