RE: ADD/DROP CONSTRAINT and inheritance

From: Stephan Szabo <sszabo(at)megazone23(dot)bigpanda(dot)com>
To: Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl(at)familyhealth(dot)com(dot)au>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: ADD/DROP CONSTRAINT and inheritance
Date: 2001-05-24 04:57:28
Message-ID: Pine.BSF.4.21.0105232156040.71051-100000@megazone23.bigpanda.com
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> > Seems like a bad idea to
> > me. But as long as the default is to propagate these changes, I'm not
> > really eager to prohibit DBAs from doing the other. Who's to say what's
> > a misuse of inheritance and what's not...
>
> At the moment we have:
>
> * ADD CONSTRAINT does not propagate
> * If you create a table with a CHECK constraint, then create a table that
> inherits from that, the CHECK constraint _does_ propagate.
>
> Seems to me that these behaviours are inconsistent...

Yep, but I've got the minimal patch to fix ADD CONSTRAINT. I'm just
waiting for the upcoming weekend so I can add the regression tests and
pack it up.

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