| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Barry Lind <blind(at)xythos(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Postgresql Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Information Schema and constraint names not unique |
| Date: | 2003-11-07 21:25:21 |
| Message-ID: | 200311072125.hA7LPLU27930@candle.pha.pa.us |
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Barry Lind wrote:
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>
> Tom Lane wrote:
> >
> >>Using tableoid instead of tablename avoids renaming problems, but makes
> >>the names horribly opaque IMNSHO.
> >
> >
> > Agreed. I think using the OIDs would be a horrible choice.
> >
>
> As a point of reference Oracle uses a naming convention of 'Cnnnn' where
> nnnn is a sequence generated unique value. So in Oracle system
> generated names are very opaque. I never saw this as a problem, since
> if you wanted a non-opaque name you could always assign one yourself.
What, no dollar signs? :-)
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