Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] Column name's length

From: wieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck)
To: tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us (Tom Lane)
Cc: jwieck(at)debis(dot)com, vadim(at)krs(dot)ru, lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org, zalman(at)netcom(dot)com
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Re: [SQL] Column name's length
Date: 1999-06-02 14:34:05
Message-ID: m10pC5l-0003kGC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de
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Tom Lane wrote:

> > I like it.
>
> Perhaps eventually we should wind up using names like "pg_pkey_8381292"
> but I think this ought to wait until the system retains an explicit
> representation of the relationship between these indexes/sequences and
> the owning table, and until we think through the consequences for
> pg_dump. For now we had better stick to unprivileged names.

Of course! I didn't meant to do anything on it for v6.5.
Implementing automatic sequence deletion if they got created
due to serial fields is definitely feature. And I agree that
all the odds and ends have to get discussed down first.

Jan

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