Re: RE: ALTER TABLE...ADD CONSTRAINT?

"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au> writes:
> can someone point me to the C file that handles CREATE
> TABLE so I can see how it's done?

backend/parser/analyze.c has the preprocessing (see
transformCreateStmt). Actual execution starts in
backend/commands/creatinh.c, and there's also important code in
backend/catalog/heap.c.

Plus subroutines scattered here, there, and everywhere :-(.

You really won't get far in reading the PG sources until you have
a tool that will quickly find the definition (and optionally all uses)
of any particular symbol you are interested in. I'm partial to glimpse,
but you could also use ctags/etags or some other indexing program.

regards, tom lane