Re: Doc patch: Document names of automatically created constraints and indexes

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 1:22 AM, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 11:42 -0600, Karl O. Pinc wrote:
>> Could ALTER TABLE use an option to drop the
>> primary key constraint?  I needed to do that,
>> found it was not obvious, and this lead me to
>> try to improve things.
>
> That could be useful, I think.  But it might open a can of worms.

Would the new option be syntactic sugar around ALTER TABLE ... DROP
CONSTRAINT "put_the_name_of_the_primary_key_here"?

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