Tom Lane wrote:
>
> 7.0 has a new behavior of *telling* you that it's truncating overlength
> identifiers, but the system has always truncated 'em.
>
> If you're simply complaining about the fact that it emits a notice,
> I agree with you 100%: that notice is one of the most nonstandard,
> useless, annoying bits of pointless pedantry I've seen in many years.
> I argued against it to start with but was outvoted. Maybe we can have
> a revote now that people have had some practical experience with it:
> who still thinks it's a good idea?
And while we're at it, let's get rid of the 'implementation' NOTICEs
about foreign keys and UNIQUE.
I don't mind the NOTICE about SERIAL since we don't clean up the
sequence on DROP TABLE.
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Mark Hollomon
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