Re: Enforce primary key on every table during dev? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Achilleas Mantzios
Subject Re: Enforce primary key on every table during dev?
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Msg-id c55322a0-7956-8825-aec0-68c38a0aa154@matrix.gatewaynet.com
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In response to Enforce primary key on every table during dev?  (Jeremy Finzel <finzelj@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-general
On 28/02/2018 15:34, Jeremy Finzel wrote:
> We want to enforce a policy, partly just to protect those who might forget, for every table in a particular schema to
havea primary key.  This can't be done with event triggers as far as I can see, 
 
> because it is quite legitimate to do:
>
> BEGIN;
> CREATE TABLE foo (id int);
> ALTER TABLE foo ADD PRIMARY KEY (id);
> COMMIT;
>
> It would be nice to have some kind of "deferrable event trigger" or some way to enforce that no transaction commits
whichadded a table without a primary key.
 
>
> Any ideas?
cron job to check for tables without PK ? Although for a short period the offending table would be there live without a
PK.
But IMO every table, in addition to PK, should have also natural unique keys as much as possible.
Better safe than sorry.
>
> Thanks,
> Jeremy


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