RE: DROP CONSTRAINT (UNIQUE) preliminary support

> Christopher, where are we on this patch?

No-one commented on it.  It's not a committable patch, it was basically to
get some feedback to see if I was going in the right direction.

Since then, I decided to complete the ADD CONSTRAINT stuff first.  I've
_almost_ finished ADD UNIQUE and ADD PRIMARY.  I'll probably submit a patch
for those in the next couple of days.  After that I'll worry about DROP
CONSTRAINT again.

Chris

> > Hi all,
> >
> > This patch allows ALTER TABLE/DROP CONSTRAINT to drop UNIQUE
> constraints by
> > dropping the relevant index.
> >
> > This is a prelim patch that I need comment on (The @@
> comments), and I've
> > edited some things out by hand, so I don't recommend applying
> it to anything
> > just yet.
> >
> > I have added an IsIndex function to indexcmds.c and a
> RemoveUniqueConstraint
> > to heap.c, plus modified command.c's AlterTableDropConstraint
> function to
> > call RemoveUniqueConstraint.
> >
> > Note that I have disabled inheritance support for unique
> constraints - since
> > it's impossible to have two indices of the same name anyway...
> >
> > Comments please.
> >
> > Chris
>
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