Re: DROP CONSTRAINT patch

Your patch has been added to the PostgreSQL unapplied patches list at:
http://candle.pha.pa.us/cgi-bin/pgpatches

I will try to apply it withing the next 48 hours.

> Hi all,
> 
> Attached is my patch that adds DROP CONSTRAINT support to PostgreSQL.  I
> basically want your guys feedback.  I have sprinkled some of my q's thru
> the text delimited with the @@ symbol.  It seems to work perfectly.
> 
> At the moment it does CHECK constraints only, with inheritance.  However,
> due to the problem mentioned before with the mismatching between inherited
> constraints it may be wise to disable the inheritance feature for a while.
> it is written in an extensible fashion to support future dropping of other
> types of constraint, and is well documented.
> 
> Please send me your comments, check my use of locking, updating of
> indices, use of ERROR and NOTICE, etc. and I will rework the patch based
> on feedback until everyone
> is happy with it...
> 
> Chris

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