Re: Enforce primary key on every table during dev?
Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
From: Achilleas Mantzios <achill@matrix.gatewaynet.com>
To: pgsql-general@lists.postgresql.org
Date: 2018-02-28T13:46:41Z
Lists: pgsql-general
On 28/02/2018 15:34, Jeremy Finzel 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: > > BEGIN; > CREATE TABLE foo (id int); > ALTER TABLE foo ADD PRIMARY KEY (id); > COMMIT; > > It would be nice to have some kind of "deferrable event trigger" or some way to enforce that no transaction commits which added a table without a primary key. > > Any ideas? cron job to check for tables without PK ? Although for a short period the offending table would be there live without a PK. But IMO every table, in addition to PK, should have also natural unique keys as much as possible. Better safe than sorry. > > Thanks, > Jeremy -- Achilleas Mantzios IT DEV Lead IT DEPT Dynacom Tankers Mgmt