Re: NOT {NULL|DEFERRABLE} (was: bug in 7.0)

Jan Wieck <wieck@debis.com>

From: wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
To: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
Cc: Jan Wieck <wieck@debis.com>, Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>, pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org
Date: 2000-02-29T00:55:09Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Tom Lane wrote:
> wieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck) writes:
> > Tom Lane wrote:
> >> The other alternative that was discussed was to put the onus on
> >> analyze.c to fix things up.  Basically, we could make NOT DEFERRABLE
> >> and the other subclauses of foreign key clauses be independent
> >> clauses from the grammar's point of view; that is,
>
> >     Yepp, that was the third possible solution we  talked  about.
> >     No doubt that it is the best one, and something we both wanna
> >     see at the end. Only that I fear we cannot build it  in  time
> >     for  7.0  schedule.
>
> Why not?  It's not *that* much work --- looked like maybe an
> evening's project to me.  If no one else wants to do it, I will.

    Your turn.

    Thomas  made  his,  IMHO already complained because crippling
    the user interface in a not stdconforming way.  My one  is  a
    bad hack and therefore deprecated by definition.

    Let's  look at all three possible implementations for 7.0 and
    judge after.


Jan

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