Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> writes:
> Since when was that a design goal for psql's \d output? We had better
> revert the entire pretty-printing patch if you expect this sort of thing
> to work reliably. I thought the point of \d formatting was to be
> readable, not to be technically the exact same SQL you'd need to enter.
Hm, I always assumed it would work. It always did modulo quoting issues around
$n.
It's certainly inconvenient if it doesn't given that there's no supported way
to disable a particular constraint and then reenable it later without having
the source available.
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greg