Re: creating index names automatically?

David E. Wheeler <david@kineticode.com>

From: "David E. Wheeler" <david@kineticode.com>
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@commandprompt.com>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-12-23T03:37:01Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Dec 22, 2009, at 7:31 PM, Tom Lane wrote:

> Wait a minute.  I must have been looking at the wrong keyword list
> --- ON already is reserved.  The problem is exactly that it can't
> tell whether CREATE INDEX CONCURRENTLY ON ... means to default the
> index name or to create an index named CONCURRENTLY.  So really the
> *only* way to fix this is to make CONCURRENTLY be at least
> type_func_name_keyword.

+1 if it prevents indexes from being named "CONCURRENTLY".

Best,

David