Re: [HACKERS] serial type

> I am not sure if this is a mistake in the construction of the parsetree
> (Thomas, what do you think?) or if the node print functions need to be
> modified. I think it'd be easiest to alter the parsetree, though.
> Perhaps the UNIQUE constraint ought to be attached somewhere else.

If I understand the problem correctly, the "column name" field in the
constraint clause attached to the column node is being used to look up
the column node, resulting in a recursive infinite loop. Or is
something else happening with direct pointers back to a parent node?

The CONSTR_UNIQUE node travels from gram.y to analyze.c attached to
the column node (it can also be specified as a table constraint, and
is attached elsewhere for that case). Within transformCreateStmt(), I
scan through these constraint nodes, filling in missing info, and
collecting them in a "deferred list" to look at later in the same
routine. I don't detach the constraint nodes from the column nodes at
that time, though it might be possible to do so.

Can you clarify the problem for me? I'm afraid that I didn't pay
enough attention to the thread :(

- Thomas

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Thomas Lockhart lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu
South Pasadena, California