Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
Tom Lane asked:
Please, tell me that isn't so. $a is a reserved name now? What was
Larry thinking?
It's not that bad, really. $a and $b have special meaning inside of
a sort subroutine as the two items being compared. Thus, you can write
something like
Everything is sorted by object name in \d except check
constraints for some reason. It seems it's ordering by the wrong column.
Seems like a bug to me.
Attached is the trivial patch.
Chris
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Christopher Kings-Lynne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Everything is sorted by object name in \d except check
> constraints for some reason. It seems it's ordering by the wrong column.
> Seems like a bug to me.
That was probably done deliberately, back in the day when constraints
tended to have
That was probably done deliberately, back in the day when constraints
tended to have uselessly random names like "$1" --- sorting by the
constraint text was more helpful. I agree that now sorting by name
seems like the better thing.
Even in the "$x" case, it's better to have them sorted in that
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 07:57:35PM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Patch applied. Thanks.
Could you please put fixing domains for functions on the TODO list?
Cheers,
D
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