Re: creating index names automatically?

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> ... AFAICT, the only way
>> we could support this syntax would be to make ON a reserved word.
>> Or at least more reserved than it is now.  We used up all the wiggle
>> room we had by making CONCURRENTLY non-reserved.

> And here's Simon talking about making CONCURRENTLY more reserved so that
> people stop creating indexes named "concurrently" ...
> http://database-explorer.blogspot.com/2009/09/create-index-concurrently.html

Hmm.  It would actually work if we made CONCURRENTLY reserved instead;
and that would fix Simon's gripe too.  That's kind of weird from a
standards-compliance POV, but in terms of the risk of breaking
applications it might be better than reserving ON.
        regards, tom lane