Fabien COELHO <coelho@cri.ensmp.fr> writes:
>> Note that (2) fails for long names; you have to do something to
>> compress to NAMEDATALEN.
> Indeed.
> What if the type is changed to TEXT? It is just a view after all.
> How important is it to stick to "sql_identifier"?
It's a view defined by the SQL standard, and one of the properties
defined by the standard is the type of that column.
> Well, one must choose between to evil:
Yeah, exactly. I think that the current tradeoff is just fine.
If you want SQL-standard behavior, pick SQL-standard constraint names,
and there you are.
regards, tom lane
