OK, I will remove the TODO item:
* Require DROP COLUMN CASCADE for a column that is part of a multi-column index
Can we promote the index drop to a warning if it is multi-column?
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Rod Taylor wrote:
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> > > Basically I think this proposal would introduce a weird, confusing
> > > dichotomy of behavior between single- and multi-column indexes.
> > > And as Rod pointed out, you'd logically have to do the same for CHECK
> > > constraints depending on whether they mention one or several columns.
> > > (And what of multicolumn foreign keys?) I see much confusion ahead,
> > > and no payback.
> >
> > I do see the confusion argument, but I also see cases where folks are
> > losing the use of an index for single-column lookups. Others?
>
> So long as the user has NOTICES enabled, they should see what else was
> dropped along with it.
>
> Besides, we should encourage schema modifications to be done in
> transactions, thus they can rollback if they're not happy with the
> results.
>
> --
> Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
>
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