| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us> |
| Cc: | David Fetter <david(at)fetter(dot)org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Table inheritance surprise |
| Date: | 2008-06-27 12:11:56 |
| Message-ID: | 1214568716.3845.360.camel@ebony.site |
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On Thu, 2008-06-26 at 18:53 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
> > Folks,
> >
> > When I do CREATE TABLE foo(LIKE bar INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS), it doesn't
> > include foreign key constraints (8.3.1). I believe this is surprising
> > behavior, but maybe not a bug, so I'd like to propose another bit of
> > syntactic sugar, namely
> >
> > LIKE [INCLUDING FOREIGN KEYS]
> >
> > which would do what it looks like it does.
> >
> > What say?
>
> TODO has:
>
> o Allow inherited tables to inherit indexes, UNIQUE constraints,
> and primary/foreign keys
INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS is non-standard so maybe we can just make
INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS also include foreign keys.
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Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com
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