Re: REFERENCES error message complaint, suggestion

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On the other hand I think this might have some value. There are some DB
maintenance GUIs out there that generate the constraint names on their own,
either giving you a more or less visible way to set constraint names, or just
omitting that possibility at all.
I agree that basically one can ask the database what constraint is which (i.e.
using pgadmin3). On the other hand having a clear error in the logfile might
be convenient.

Just a thought.

UC

On Thursday 04 March 2004 07:13 am, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Karl O. Pinc" <kop(at)meme(dot)com> writes:
> > Does 7.4 do something similar with CHECK constraints?
>
> Nope, just
>
> regression=# create table baz(f1 int check (f1 > 0));
> CREATE TABLE
> regression=# insert into baz values(-1);
> ERROR: new row for relation "baz" violates check constraint "baz_f1"
> regression=#
>
> I think this is sufficient though, and that database designers ought to
> choose helpful names for constraints. I should have said something like
> ... constraint "f1 must be positive" check (f1 > 0)
> if I were concerned about the error message quality.
>
> I didn't care much for your suggestion of showing the constraint
> expression, because to the average non-programmer it would just be
> noise.
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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