Potential bug in ALTER TABLE? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai
Subject Potential bug in ALTER TABLE?
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Msg-id 20030904140219.GI42098@nexus.ninth-circle.org
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Hi,

just want to verify first with you guys before dumping it on the bugs
list.  Most likely I am just being silly here or something.

Take this:

create table blah (name TEXT CHECK (name IN ('blah', 'bleh')));
test=# \d blah   Table "public.blah"Column | Type | Modifiers 
--------+------+-----------name   | text | 
Check constraints: "blah_name" ((name = 'blah'::text) OR (name = 'bleh'::text))

As we would expect PostgreSQL to do.  The constraint has an
automatically assigned name.

Now, to continue:

ALTER TABLE blah DROP CONSTRAINT blah_name;
ALTER TABLE blah ADD CHECK (name IN ('blah', 'bleh'));
test=# \d blah   Table "public.blah"Column | Type | Modifiers 
--------+------+-----------name   | text | 
Check constraints: "$1" ((name = 'blah'::text) OR (name = 'bleh'::text))

And this time around PostgreSQL doesn't assign an automatic name.
Well, it depends on what you call a name, but $1, $2, and so on isn't
quite descriptive.  Is this an oversight or am I missing some subtle
thing here?

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