Re: Do we still need these NOTICEs?

From: Joe Conway <mail(at)joeconway(dot)com>
To: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Do we still need these NOTICEs?
Date: 2002-07-17 03:19:32
Message-ID: 3D34E244.9070701@joeconway.com
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Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>
>>I am considering removing the following notices/warnings, since they
>>seem to be unnecessary in the brave new world of dependencies:

I also agree with removing all of these.

>>* The ones about implicit indexes for primary key/unique constraints
>>and about implicit sequences for SERIAL columns also seem unnecessary
>>now --- as with the trigger case, you can't drop the implicit object
>>directly anymore.

One thing I wondered about here -- is it still possible to use a
sequence, which is autogenerated by a SERIAL column, as the default
value for another table? If so, does this create another dependency to
prevent dropping the sequence, and hence the original (creating) table also?

Joe

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