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Re: CREATE FOREGIN TABLE LACUNA

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, David Fetter <david@fetter.org>, PG Hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2012-03-14T20:31:49Z
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On ons, 2012-03-14 at 10:27 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> That opinion seems to me to connect to the recently-posted patch to
> make contrib/file_fdw enforce NOT NULL constraints.  Should we instead
> have the position that constraints declared for foreign tables are
> statements that we can take on faith, and it's the user's fault if
> they are wrong?

We should look into the NOT ENFORCED stuff for constraints in SQL:2011.
Then we can have both, and both for regular and foreign tables.