Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The thing is, if you drop a column that is used in a normal index, yes > the index is now useless - drop it. > However, since you can have (and I have) indexes like this: > CREATE INDEX asdf ON table (a, b, c) WHERE d IS NOT NULL; > If I drop column d, there is no way I want that index to just disappear!
Uh, why not? I don't quite see the argument why d stands in a different relationship to this index than a,b,c do. The index is equally meaningless without any of them. > Can we change it to requiring a CASCADE? It'd likely be a simple code change, but first let's have the argument why it's a good idea. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly