Re: Can't drop constraint? - Mailing list pgsql-admin

From Michael Monnerie
Subject Re: Can't drop constraint?
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Msg-id 200905060745.56455@zmi.at
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In response to Re: Can't drop constraint?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Can't drop constraint?  (Carol Walter <walterc@indiana.edu>)
Re: Can't drop constraint?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Dienstag 05 Mai 2009 Tom Lane wrote:
> Apparently this is just an index, not a constraint (the difference
> being that it was made with CREATE INDEX, not ALTER TABLE ADD
> CONSTRAINT). Try

Is there a performance difference? Or is it just a matter of taste which
one you use? Technically, are they both indices, or is the constraint a
check that's executed on insert/update, but doesn't store the values?

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