| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Peter Geoghegan <peter(dot)geoghegan86(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Hm, table constraints aren't so unique as all that |
| Date: | 2013-01-29 03:36:38 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoY=ZP9TSLzpQcSRf2NzkVovdS0SjCV1EOz0aD6sY83_tQ@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 10:23 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
> I think that we'll soon be buried in gripes if they're not. Pretty much
> the whole point of this patch is to allow applications to get rid of
> ad-hoc, it-usually-works coding techniques. I'd argue that not checking
> the entire constraint identity is about as fragile as trying to "sed"
> the constraint name out of a potentially-localized error message.
> In both cases, it often works fine, until the application's context
> changes.
+1.
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Robert Haas
EnterpriseDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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