On Sunday 14 March 2004 00:16, Tom Lane wrote:
> > Call me crazy, but maybe we have to throw a message for primary
> > key lookups on foreign key tables without indexes. I hate to throw a
> > message on update/delete rather than create table, but I don't see
> > another way.
>
> I don't think that will fly. It's too noisy/repetitive, and it's
> complaining at the wrong time (in production rather than when you're
> setting up the DB schema). Imagine how annoying it would be to get
> such warnings if you were a user without the privileges needed to create
> the requested index.
Maybe there should be a separate "pg_advisor" tool that you can run against a
database and which looks for "oddities". Something pluggable so people can
add tests simply.
--
Richard Huxton
Archonet Ltd
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