Re: constraint defaults still print

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: constraint defaults still print
Date: 2003-01-19 02:09:13
Message-ID: 20030119100852.Y12036-100000@houston.familyhealth.com.au
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I vote for not showing 'NO ACTION', so long as it's the SQL standard
default...

Chris

On Sat, 18 Jan 2003, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Remember how we made DEFERRABLE/DEFERRED not print if the constraint was
> the default. Shouldn't we do the same for MATCH and ON UPDATE/ON DELETE
> sections of the constraint in pg_get_constraintdef()?
>
> Doing \d I see:
>
> test=> \d sales
> Table "public.sales"
> Column | Type | Modifiers
> -------------------+---------+-----------
> product_id | integer | not null
> store_id | integer | not null
> quantity_sold | integer | not null
> date_time_of_sale | date | not null
> Foreign Key constraints: $1 FOREIGN KEY (product_id) REFERENCES
> products(product_id) ON UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO ACTION,
> $2 FOREIGN KEY (store_id) REFERENCES
> stores(store_id) ON UPDATE NO ACTION ON DELETE NO ACTION
>
> If NO ACTION is the default, is there a need to print them? This would
> also shorten pg_dump output.
>
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