Re: Index name different from constraint name

OK, updated.

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Stephen Frost wrote:
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> * Bruce Momjian (pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> > Added to TODO:
> >
> > o Have ALTER INDEX update the name of a constraint using that index
> > o Allow ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT
>
> More like:
> Add ALTER TABLE RENAME CONSTRAINT; implicitly rename linked indexes also
>
> Is there much dependency on constraint names? If not, it'd seem like
> implementing this would be pretty straight-forward. For some reason, I
> thought there was some dependency on constraint names, but I can't
> remember what...
>
> Thanks,
>
> Stephen
>
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> >
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> > > Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> > > > * Tom Lane (tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us) wrote:
> > > >> Arguably we should forbid ALTER INDEX RENAME on an index that belongs to
> > > >> a constraint, and make you rename the constraint instead (and have that
> > > >> implicitly change the index name too).
> > >
> > > > That would work too, though I don't think you can just rename a
> > > > constraint.
> > >
> > > Yeah, we'd need to add syntax for that, but it seems useful anyway.
> > >
> > > Plan B would be to make the ALTER INDEX RENAME update the associated
> > > constraint too, but that doesn't give you a facility to rename
> > > constraints of other types.
> > >
> > > Anyway, point is that I think we should force the index and constraint
> > > names to track each other, rather than complicating matters by
> > > supporting the situation where they are different.
> > >
> > > regards, tom lane
> > >
> > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)---------------------------
> > > TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to
> > > choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not
> > > match
> > >
> >
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