Re: CREATE IF NOT EXISTS INDEX

On Tue, Sep 30, 2014 at 8:47 PM, Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> wrote:
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> On 09/30/2014 04:16 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> > On 2014-09-30 16:03:01 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> >> On 09/30/2014 03:53 PM, Andres Freund wrote:
> >>> Good point. I think it's fair enough to only allow CINE on named
> >>> indexes.
> >>
> >> On the other hand, the way we form system-generated names is predicable,
> >> so I think it would be perfectly OK to include them.  Desirable, in fact.
> >
> > It's not really that predicable. Think about expression indexes. They
> > also don't contain information about opclasses et all.
> >
> > Seems like pit of hairy semantics.
> >
> >> Not that I'm a fan of omitting the name ...
> >
> > Me neither.
>
> I'd be OK with a CINE which required you to name the index.
>
> How does your patch work at present, Fabrizio?
>