Re: Patch to add a primary key using an existing index

From: David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Itagaki Takahiro <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com>, Gurjeet Singh <singh(dot)gurjeet(at)gmail(dot)com>, Steve Singer <ssinger(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info>, Steve Singer <ssinger_pg(at)sympatico(dot)ca>, PGSQL Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Patch to add a primary key using an existing index
Date: 2010-11-29 06:58:40
Message-ID: 20101129065840.GC1942@fetter.org
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On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 08:40:08PM -0500, Robert Haas wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2010 at 8:06 PM, Itagaki Takahiro
> <itagaki(dot)takahiro(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 05:58, Steve Singer <ssinger(at)ca(dot)afilias(dot)info> wrote:
> >> The attached version of the patch gets your regression tests to
> >> pass. I'm going to mark this as ready for a committer.
> >
> > I think we need more discussions about the syntax:  ALTER TABLE
> > table_name ADD PRIMARY KEY (...) WITH (INDEX='index_name')
>
> Why not:
>
> ALTER TABLE table_name ADD PRIMARY KEY (...) INDEX index_name;

+1 :)

Cheers,
David.
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