Re: Proposition for autoname columns

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Eugen Konkov <kes-kes(at)yandex(dot)ru>, Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker <ilmari(at)ilmari(dot)org>, Pg Hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Proposition for autoname columns
Date: 2020-11-12 18:55:44
Message-ID: 20201112185543.GG25584@momjian.us
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2020 at 01:52:11PM -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
> On the whole, I'm on the side of the people who don't want to change this.
> The implementation cost seems likely to greatly outweigh the value, plus
> it feels more like a wart than a feature.

I think we can mark this as, "We thought about it, and we decided it is
probably not a good idea."

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