RE: Feature request : Remove identifier length constraints

Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>

From: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
To: "Thomas Swan" <tswan@olemiss.edu>, <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2001-06-06T01:58:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> I had just started to get in the habit of using serial data types until
> I made to tables with long names and the automatic sequence names that
> were generated conflicted, *ouch* ...
>
> Is there the possibility of a name conflict resolution during the table
> creation phase similar to "the name I want to assign is already taken,
> so I'll pick a different name..." on the serial data type?

I'll have a look, but it'll be a few weeks before I have a patch for it (as
I'm doing other things at the moment)

Chris