Re: Enforce primary key on every table during dev?

David G. Johnston <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>

From: "David G. Johnston" <david.g.johnston@gmail.com>
To: Jeremy Finzel <finzelj@gmail.com>
Cc: Postgres General <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Date: 2018-02-28T14:14:32Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 6:34 AM, Jeremy Finzel <finzelj@gmail.com> wrote:

> We want to enforce a policy, partly just to protect those who might
> forget, for every table in a particular schema to have a primary key.  This
> can't be done with event triggers as far as I can see, because it is quite
> legitimate to do:
>

​Add a query to your test suite that queries the catalogs and fails if this
policy is violated.  There is nothing in a running PostgreSQL server
instance that is going to enforce this for you.

David J.