Re: Improving the names generated for indexes on expressions

[ Nobody has had any better ideas in 2 months, so back to this ... ]

Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> Do you think there's any way of doing this usefully while not
> autogenerating names that require quoting, or is that a hopeless
> endeavor? If it's hopeless, is it better to accept autogenerated names
> that require quoting, or is it better to solve the problem on the
> other thread with something more like what you proposed there?

If people are dead set against double-quoting, I think the only way
forward is to not include operator names in the generated index names.
I do not think that's a better way personally, but I seem to be
outvoted. Here's a v2 that does it like that.

regards, tom lane