Re: constraint modification on todo list

From: Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai <asmodai(at)wxs(dot)nl>
To: Rod Taylor <rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca>
Cc: PostgreSQL Development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: constraint modification on todo list
Date: 2003-09-08 19:00:43
Message-ID: 20030908190043.GE88340@nexus.ninth-circle.org
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-On [20030908 20:52], Rod Taylor (rbt(at)rbt(dot)ca) wrote:
>This could be rather time consuming to actually write but having the
>ability to change foreign key on update / on delete modes without
>rechecking all of the data would be very useful.

I was more interested in this feature for CHECK constraints. :)

>I think this is a more consistent syntax:
>ALTER TABLE .. ADD OR REPLACE <table constraint>

I was following Oracle's example here for sake of some consistency
between some RDBMSes.

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