Re: A patch that adds primary key and unique key support to psql's \d

From: Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Patches <pgsql-patches(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: A patch that adds primary key and unique key support to psql's \d
Date: 2001-05-28 04:27:09
Message-ID: 200105280427.f4S4R9s16543@candle.pha.pa.us
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Patch applied.

> Sample output that appears below the table attributes for \d:
>
> Indicies: palm_buy_date_idx
> palm_user_date_idx
> Primary Key: palm_buyers_pkey
> Unique Key: palm_buyers_username
> Constraint: "$1" ((sex = 'M'::bpchar) OR (sex = 'F'::bpchar))
>
> Note that check constraint name now shown as well. (Makes it a lot easier
> to test inheritance support in ADD/DROP constraint :) )
>
> Attached is a docs change for psql.
>
> Chris
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Bruce Momjian [mailto:pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us]
> > Sent: Monday, 28 May 2001 9:56 AM
> > To: Christopher Kings-Lynne
> > Cc: Patches
> > Subject: Re: [PATCHES] A patch that adds primary key and unique key
> > support to psql's \d
> >
> >
> > Patch applied.
> >
> > Christopher, can you post a sample of the new output. Also, does this
> > affect the psql docs at all?
> >
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ]
> > > This just breaks down the indices in to three groups:
> > >
> > > non-unique: stay as they were
> > > unique and primary: become listed as primary keys
> > > unique and non-primary: become listed as unique keys
> > >
> > > I also made it so that it shows the names of check constraints ie:
> > >
> > > Check: "$1" (a > 5)
> > >
> > > Chris
> >
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