Re: pg_dump / Unique constraints

At 15:50 22/11/00 +0800, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>I've been examining the pg_dump source and output, and I've come to the
>conclusion that I can modify it so that UNIQUE constraints appear as part of
>the CREATE TABLE statement, rather than as a separate CREATE INDEX.
...
>Is there any problem with me working on this?

I actually don't think it's a good idea to force things to work that way. 

Perhaps as an *option*, but even then I'd be inclined to append them as a
series of 'ALTER TABLE ADD CONSTRAINT...' statements.


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