Re: Possible patch for better index name choosing
Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
Cc: Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-12-21T22:37:25Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> writes: > On mn, 2009-12-21 at 00:03 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: >> Well, we could tamp down the risks considerably if we undid my point >> (1), namely to still consider only the first index column when >> generating a name. > I think putting all the column names into the index names instead of > only the first is a significant improvement that should be kept. Yeah, I think so too. It's well worth any risk of application incompatibility --- we make much bigger changes in every major release without blinking. regards, tom lane