From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> |
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To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
Cc: | Marko Tiikkaja <marko(dot)tiikkaja(at)cs(dot)helsinki(dot)fi>, Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Dimitri Fontaine <dimitri(at)2ndquadrant(dot)fr>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: REVIEW: ALTER TABLE ... ADD FOREIGN KEY ... NOT ENFORCED |
Date: | 2011-01-23 20:31:39 |
Message-ID: | 1295814699.1803.20469.camel@ebony |
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On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 14:45 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndQuadrant(dot)com> writes:
> > On Sun, 2011-01-23 at 20:33 +0200, Marko Tiikkaja wrote:
> >> \d table now only shows that there's a FOREIGN KEY, which might lead the
> >> user to think that there should not be any values that don't exist in
> >> the referenced table.
>
> > Neither \d nor \di shows invalid indexes.
>
> Even if that were true, it's a poor analogy, since a disabled foreign
> key has visible *semantic* impact, whereas a disabled index doesn't.
Sure. My agreement to add something appears to have crossed with your
comments.
I'd appreciate you reviewing the parser aspects of the patch. $TITLE no
longer reflects the syntax.
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Simon Riggs http://www.2ndQuadrant.com/books/
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