Re: pg_dump: use ALTER TABLE for PKs

At 14:05 19/02/02 -0800, Stephan Szabo wrote:
>
>Check constraints and not null I believe are inherited by default.
>But I just thought of a case that won't dump and restore the same as it
>was originally made because we support ONLY on alter table add constraint.
>
>create table z(a int);
>create table z2() inherits(z);
>alter table only z add constraint foo1 check(a>4);
>
>will make z have a constraint on a but not z2 and the check will get
>dumped as part of z's definition which will restore with z2 having
>the check.

This brings to mind a couple of questions:

1. Do you have plans to support inhertiance of PK constraints?
2. Does/will DROP CONSTRAINT support ONLY?


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