Re: ADD/DROP CONSTRAINT and inheritance - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: ADD/DROP CONSTRAINT and inheritance
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Msg-id 26759.990673193@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to RE: ADD/DROP CONSTRAINT and inheritance  ("Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>)
Responses RE: ADD/DROP CONSTRAINT and inheritance
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"Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> I'm not sure what you mean here, Tom - I meant that the ONLY keyword could
> be optional.

The current gram.y code allows either ALTER TABLE foo ONLY or ALTER
TABLE foo* for all forms of ALTER ... with the default interpretation
being the latter.

> At the moment we have:
> * ADD CONSTRAINT does not propagate

I doubt you will find anyone who's willing to argue that that's not a
bug --- specifically, AlterTableAddConstraint()'s lack of inheritance
recursion like its siblings have.  Feel free to fix it.
        regards, tom lane


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