Re: Accessing composite type columns in indexes - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Michael Glaesemann
Subject Re: Accessing composite type columns in indexes
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Msg-id 4B7E5F2A-C677-4E53-973A-537A9D7B5176@myrealbox.com
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In response to Re: Accessing composite type columns in indexes  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mar 4, 2006, at 14:17 , Tom Lane wrote:

> The UNIQUE/PRIMARY KEY syntax only allows bare column names, per
> the SQL
> standard.  While there's not any technical reason why we couldn't
> extend
> that syntax, there's a pretty large fear factor involved: we could
> find
> ourselves behind the spec-compliance eight-ball if the SQL committee
> exercises their prerogative to extend the syntax in some other
> direction.

Cool. Thanks for the explanation.

Michael Glaesemann
grzm myrealbox com




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