Re: [PATCHES] Inherited Constraints

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)skype(dot)net>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Inherited Constraints
Date: 2006-03-06 21:53:17
Message-ID: 1141681997.3810.4.camel@localhost.localdomain
Views: Raw Message | Whole Thread | Download mbox | Resend email
Thread:
Lists: pgsql-hackers pgsql-patches

Ühel kenal päeval, E, 2006-03-06 kell 12:12, kirjutas Bruce Momjian:
> Added to TODO:
>
> o Prevent parent tables from altering or dropping constraints
> like CHECK that are inherited by child tables
>
> Dropping constraints should only be possible with CASCADE.
>
> and we already have this in TODO:
>
> o %Prevent child tables from altering or dropping constraints
> like CHECK that were inherited from the parent table
>
> so I think we now have all the failure cases documented.

If you want to be consistent, then ALTER TABLE ONLY ADD CONSTRAINT ..
should also be forbidden, so you can't create non-inherited constraints

---------------
Hannu

In response to

Responses

Browse pgsql-hackers by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Bruce Momjian 2006-03-06 22:25:16 Re: [PATCHES] Inherited Constraints
Previous Message Bruno Wolff III 2006-03-06 21:04:48 Re: [PATCHES] LDAP auth

Browse pgsql-patches by date

  From Date Subject
Next Message Bruce Momjian 2006-03-06 22:25:16 Re: [PATCHES] Inherited Constraints
Previous Message Bruce Momjian 2006-03-06 19:49:11 Re: [HACKERS] Backslashes in string literals