Re: CHECK NO INHERIT syntax - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com> writes:
> True.  I have added an error check at creation time.  Please suggest
> improved wording for the message:

> alvherre=# create domain positiveint2 as int check (value > 0) no inherit;
> ERROR:  CHECK constraints for domains cannot be NO INHERIT

I think "CHECK constraints for domains cannot be marked NO INHERIT"
would be fine.

>  ConstraintElem:
> -            CHECK opt_no_inherit '(' a_expr ')' ConstraintAttributeSpec
> +            CHECK '(' a_expr ')' opt_no_inherit ConstraintAttributeSpec

This doesn't seem to me to meet the principle of least surprise.  Surely
NO INHERIT ought to be folded into ConstraintAttributeSpec so that it
acts like other constraint decorations, ie order isn't significant.
        regards, tom lane