Re: ADD FOREIGN KEY (was Re: [GENERAL] 7.4Beta)

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Jan Wieck <JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com>, Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Peter Childs <Blue(dot)Dragon(at)blueyonder(dot)co(dot)uk>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: ADD FOREIGN KEY (was Re: [GENERAL] 7.4Beta)
Date: 2003-10-09 02:10:07
Message-ID: 200310090210.h992A7X27225@candle.pha.pa.us
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Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
>
> >>Well, with the CREATE CONSTRAINT TRIGGER you _can_, but we already have
> >>a consensus that we don't _want_ that. Probably we should declare it
> >>deprecated and remove it in 7.5. And the option currently under
> >>discussion is exactly what will cause ALTER TABLE to let you, but IMHO
> >>that _should_ be restricted.
>
> How can we ever remove it - what about people upgrading from 7.0, 7.1,
> 7.2? Also, people upgrading from 7.3 who've never heard of adddepend...

Not sure. We can remove documentation about it, at least.

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