On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Tom Lane wrote: > Bruce Momjian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > No, but it is a missing capability many will complain about. I can > > easily remove it. I saw no one comment when I added it to the patches > > queue. > > I hadn't seen you add it to the patches queue ... > > I did see Gavin's submission but did not yet have time to look at the > details. What does it *do* exactly --- simply allow INDEX as a > substitute for TABLE in the syntax, or more? I'm not thrilled at the > idea of adding a lot of duplicate coding for this.
I tried to avoid any duplication. The patch still uses all the ALTER TABLE code. Its just a grammar modification and some setting of completion tags. That being said, I felt obliged to provide at patch when I started hearing noise about ALTER TABLE <index name> being a bit of a hack -- which it is. Gavin ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 8: explain analyze is your friend
