>> It appears that the only way to create a non-inherited CHECK constraint >> is using ALTER TABLE. Is there no support in CREATE TABLE planned? >> That looks a bit odd. > > There are no plans to do that AFAIR, though maybe you could convince > Nikhil to write the patch to do so.
That certainly doesn't meet the principle of least surprise... CREATE TABLE should support this.
Well, the above was thought about during the original discussion and eventually we felt that CREATE TABLE already has other issues as well, so not having this done as part of creating a table was considered acceptable then:
