Re: Information Schema and constraint names not unique - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Barry Lind wrote:
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> 
> Tom Lane wrote:
> > 
> >>Using tableoid instead of tablename avoids renaming problems, but makes 
> >>the names horribly opaque IMNSHO.
> > 
> > 
> > Agreed.  I think using the OIDs would be a horrible choice.
> > 
> 
> As a point of reference Oracle uses a naming convention of 'Cnnnn' where 
> nnnn is a sequence generated unique value.  So in Oracle system 
> generated names are very opaque.  I never saw this as a problem, since 
> if you wanted a non-opaque name you could always assign one yourself.

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