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Re: Table constraint ordering disrupted by pg_dump

Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>

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From: Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, pholben@greatbridge.com, pgsql-bugs@postgresql.org
Date: 2001-04-03T03:14:48Z
Lists: pgsql-bugs 
At 16:40 2/04/01 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>I don't believe this is a bug.  There is no guarantee that constraints
>are checked in any particular order.
>

While it't not a bug, it would be nice if pg_dump reproduced definitions as
faithfully as possible. To that end, would it be worth selecting the
constraints in OID order (using oid from pg_relcheck)?


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