Re: Uniqueness of rule, constraint, and trigger names

Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com> writes:
> On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
>> For constraints, we'd need to change the code to be more careful to
>> generate unique names for unnamed constraints. That doesn't seem

> Another question would be what to do with inherited constraints that
> conflict in multiple inheritance cases. It'd probably be safe to rename
> those on the child table to be unique,

I'd just raise an error, I think, unless perhaps the constraints are
identical (for some definition of identical). We don't allow
conflicting column definitions to be inherited, so why constraints?

regards, tom lane