RE: DROP CONSTRAINT (UNIQUE) preliminary support

> How are we doing on this patch?

Don't commit it!  I just want feedback - however I prolly won't worry about
it until I've finished fully implementing DROP CONSTRAINT to support all
types of constraints.

> > 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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