Re: CREATE TABLE LIKE, regarding constraints

On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 15:32, <david(dot)sahagian(at)emc(dot)com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 22:27,  <david(dot)sahagian(at)emc(dot)com> wrote:
>> www.postgresql.org/docs/9.0/static/sql-createtable.html
>> == == == == ==
>> LIKE parent_table [ like_option ... ]
>> . . .
>> Not-null constraints are always copied to the new table.
>> CHECK constraints will only be copied if INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS is specified; other types of constraints will never be copied.
>> . . .
>> == == == == ==
>>
>> But I do see PK and UNIQUE constraints
>>  CONSTRAINT blah_pkey PRIMARY KEY (id),
>>  CONSTRAINT blah_host_id_key UNIQUE (host_id)
>> in the def of the new table.
>
> Can you provide the commands you ran to make that happen? It doesn't
> happen for me in a trivial test.
>
>> Also, why is there no discussion of what "EXCLUDING CONSTRAINTS" will result in ?
>
>
> Magnus,
> I did some more "testing" of CREATE TABLE LIKE,
> and now see that [INCLUDING INDEXES] also can cause PRIMARY KEY and UNIQUE constraints to become part of the new table.

Ah, that explains why I couldn't reproduce it.

> I have no problem with this behavior,
> but the doc probably deserves some clarification on the "relationship" between
> [INCLUDING CONSTRAINTS] and [INCLUDING INDEXES].

That might be a good idea, yes. Feel like cooking up a patch?

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