Re: [HACKERS] Features list

From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: darcy(at)druid(dot)net (D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain)
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Features list
Date: 1998-10-24 23:46:16
Message-ID: 199810242346.TAA02149@candle.pha.pa.us
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> Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> > When someone uses PRIMARY in table creation, why don't we just plop
> > something in the field?
>
> Well, that would be the "completion" of the facility. Also, we should
> fill in the proper values in the system catalogues. The latter is probably
> easy but the former rewuires mucking with the table creation code. I don't
> think it is a lot of work but perhaps not something to start now.
>
> In any case, we're past the freeze, right?

I hesitate to add a mention that we have a field for primary key, while
we do nothing with it.

This was brought up, but post-freeze, and since it was totally new,
could not be added.

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