Peter Geoghegan <p...@heroku.com> wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 11:44 AM, Kevin Grittner <kgri...@ymail.com> wrote:
>> [discussion on committers rejecting the notion of a syntax >> involving specification of an index name] > as I've said many times, there are problems with naming > columns directly that need to be addressed. There are corner-cases. > Are you going to complain about those once I go implement something? If I don't like what I see, yes. I think it will be entirely possible for you to write something along those lines that I won't complain about. > I think we can just throw an error in these edge-cases, but let's > decide if we're comfortable with that. If the list of columns does not allow a choice of a suitable full-table unique index on only non-null columns, an error seems appropriate. What other problem cases do you see? -- Kevin Grittner EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com The Enterprise PostgreSQL Company -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers
