Re: Some more information_schema issues

From: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Some more information_schema issues
Date: 2003-10-17 15:29:54
Message-ID: 3F900AF2.4030000@familyhealth.com.au
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>>True. Btw., is there a particular value in pg_get_constraintdef always
>>printing double pairs of parentheses for CHECK constraints?
>
>
> No, but it will require some restructuring of the code to get rid of it
> safely (where "safely" is defined as "never omitting any parentheses
> that *are* necessary"). For the moment I'm willing to live with the
> ugliness. You could consider pretty-printing (pass true to
> pg_get_constraintdef) if you think visual appeal is better than
> assured correctness.

We could check the first character of the definition, and if it isn't a
left parenthesis, then we add parentheses.

Chris

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