Re: Feature suggestions (long)

From: Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org>
To: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Feature suggestions (long)
Date: 2003-05-18 01:56:29
Message-ID: 20030518015629.GC10998@svana.org
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On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 11:42:01AM -0700, Don Baccus wrote:
> On Saturday 17 May 2003 06:31 pm, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote:
>
> > Hmm, no comments on the UNIQUE-index-over-multiple-tables. I would have
> > thought that would've been the more interesting one.
>
> This would enable making PG inheritence one step closer to being truly useful,
> as one could enforce a primary key on a table and all its children.

Actually, what I described in my original post was a bit more general than
just UNIQUE indexes. From what I wrote it doesn't seem as if it'd be too
complicated (though I won't pretend to fully understand the index code).

But there must be a few hurdles to overcome, which is why I expected someone
to point out what I'd miseed.

Have a nice weekend,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog(at)svana(dot)org> http://svana.org/kleptog/
> "the West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or
> religion but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence.
> Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do."
> - Samuel P. Huntington

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