Re: [HACKERS] Features list - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Features list
Date
Msg-id 199810242346.TAA02149@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Features list  (darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain))
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Features list  (jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck))
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> Thus spake Bruce Momjian
> > When someone uses PRIMARY in table creation, why don't we just plop
> > something in the field?
> 
> Well, that would be the "completion" of the facility.  Also, we should
> fill in the proper values in the system catalogues.  The latter is probably
> easy but the former rewuires mucking with the table creation code.  I don't
> think it is a lot of work but perhaps not something to start now.
> 
> In any case, we're past the freeze, right?

I hesitate to add a mention that we have a field for primary key, while
we do nothing with it.

This was brought up, but post-freeze, and since it was totally new,
could not be added.

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